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    Default What's in your case?

    I ask from curiosity, and in a search for inspiration: Other than your mandolin, what do you keep in your case or gig bag? I keep an extra set of strings and some picks. How about you?
    Phoebe, my 2021 Collings MT mandolin
    Dolly, my 2021 Ibanez M522 mandolin
    Louise, my 193x SS Maxwell mandolin
    Fiona, My 2021 GSM guitar-bodied octave resonator mandolin
    Charlotte, my 2016 Eastman MDO 305 octave mandolin
    And Giuliana, my 2002 Hans Schuster 505 violin, Nehenehe, my 2021 Aklot concert ukulele,
    Annie, my 2022 Guild M-140 guitar, Joni, my 1963 Harmony 1215 Archtone archtop guitar,
    Yoko, my ca. 1963 Yamaha Dynamic No.15 guitar, and Rich, my 1959 husband.

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    In my case there is...

    •An Oasis Humidifier
    •A cloth for wiping the strings
    •A PrimeTone, as a back up pick
    •A couple pieces of foam to secure my instrument better
    •A couple tools to adjust the truss rod
    •A small clip on style tuner

    I also carry a small bag to gigs, jams and Church meetings with...

    •Extra strings depending on the instrument (acoustic, electronic, mandolin. I dont bring extra bass strings)
    •A 1/4 instrument cable
    •An Altoids tin with my good picks
    •A Capo
    •A Strap that goes with whatever I'm playing
    •A floor style tuner
    •A pre amp/EQ pedal
    •A overdrive/reverb pedal
    •A couple extra patch cables
    •An extra 9v battery
    •In ear style headphones

    I think that sums it up.

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Not much in the case, maybe a spare pick or two, spare strings.

    I carry a solid box case from HarborFreight (instead of a gig bag) to most practices/dances/gigs much like Zac,

    -preamp- has a tuner, boost, reverb etc in it
    -several cables
    -spare xlr cable
    -spare strings for various instruments
    -extension cord
    -spare picks
    -sheet music/tune books
    -a couple of capos
    -sometimes a small 4 input mixer (a lifesaver if the PA at a venue is too small)
    -sometimes instrument straps
    -a spare 9V battery
    -sometimes a sub-octave pedal
    -miscellaneous adapters and patch cables
    -a small spare DI
    -ear protectors

    I don't carry it when just jamming acoustically.

    Most of the time, I double, carrying two instruments, so it is easier to keep all the auxiliary stuff in it's own case
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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    I’m the wrong guy to ask on a mando since I’m just beginning . My case has three or four picks, a tuner, a capo, and a set of strings...
    My gig bag has a set of twelve harps, a spare set of seven harps, two harp mikes, two charged sets of wireless transmitters, a modeling amp pedal, a reverb pedal, cables, a 9v adapter and a set of spare 9v batteries. And a truckload of PAs and cables and mixer and mikes and stands

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Not a lot (so far) in the mandolin cases beyond picks, cleaning cloths, and humidification items.

    My violin case contains:
    _instrument and two bows
    _shoulder rest
    _rosin
    _cleaning cloth
    _3 sets of old strings (if you break one, I've got you covered!)
    _pencil with good eraser
    _fingernail clippers
    _some random business cards
    _a small sewing kit
    _a handknit Santa hat that fits over the scroll
    _a Chinese coin with a square hole in the middle, strung on a velvet ribbon
    _some stray wrapped chocolates

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    A sandstone humidifier;
    A small bag containing:
    a tuner,
    a capo,
    two Black Mountain thumb picks (my preferred pick -- arthritis in my right hand makes thumb-picking more comfortable, i.e., using flat picks for the thumb),
    two Herco Medium thumb picks,
    and a flat pick (for emergencies or short-term loan);

    In an outside pocket:
    a partial set of strings,
    a full set of strings, unopened,
    an electronic cable,
    three small file cards, one of which tells when I last changed my strings,
    a small tool (for turning what?),
    instructions for a tuner (but not the one in this case),
    and a colourful change purse from India with:
    assorted picks, thumb and flat, of different sizes and shapes (leftovers from experimentation),
    and a pick case.

    It was interesting to do this inventory -- there's much more there than I expected!
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    In my mandolin case is a mandolin, a set of strings, a pick and a cloth. And if you ask the people, there is a uke or a banjo in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Round2 View Post
    I ask from curiosity, and in a search for inspiration: Other than your mandolin, what do you keep in your case or gig bag? I keep an extra set of strings and some picks. How about you?
    set of strings, several picks, tuner , capo and that's it !

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    My Girouard lives in a Price case, and in the neck pocket you'll find:

    - one of those silk cleaning cloths that Ted used to sell over on the JazzMando site
    - TC Electronics Polytune tuner
    - Leather Mandolin Store pick pouch containing a Bluechip KS35, TPR35, old teardrop shaped Weber pick, hot pink .96mm Dunlop Delrin teardrop shaped pick
    - wee notebook

    There's also a Boveda Humidipak in the case, and my lovely tooled leather strap from Mandolin Straps of Montana
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    2015 JP "Whitechapel" tenor banjo
    2018 Frank Tate tenor guitar
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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Polishing/cleaning cloth, tuner, spare 2032 batteries (usually 2 to 4), full set of spare strings, extra A and E strings, small tin with extra picks, strap.

    If it's a gig then also a spare tuner.

    In winter, a humidifier, often an old Ontek guitar soundhole humidifier. Those sit in a case nicer than the Oasis, IMO.
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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Picks, a tiny tuner, and the tailpiece in the (very small) compartment, wiping rag (old handkerchief), spare e string, and humidifier at the head end.

    D.H.

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    47 cents and some old strings. The pick is in the strings, so that doesn't count. There'd likely be a capo in one or two of them also.

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    oops! Forgot the tuner, but that's like the pick - stuck on the instrument.
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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Like many:
    In the case - Picks, extra set of strings, Snark tuner (in case my good one goes out), my strap
    In a carry along bag: Boss TU-3 tuner, cables, stand, flask of bourbon, 9-volt batteries
    What I play
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    Eastwood 'Ricky'
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    Various Basses

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Spare pack of strings, soft cloth, small pack of assorted picks, Shubb capo, and the neck adjustment tool. Pretty much the same for the Octave, but I also have a JJB Voljack. Depending on the gig I also have a small backpack for the Tonedexter, several cords, music, and a Boss MA-400 headphone amp that I have never used. I've been toying with the thought of going back to a RedEye, but that could just be from too much time on my hands/quarantining...
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    I'll take what is in your case over all the others posting here thus far. What a sweet expression on your cat's face!
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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Well my go to mandolin case is a mandolin / fiddle combo case. So..... fiddle strings , mandolin strings, tuners, rosin, a small bag with picks and a capo for guitar if I have left home without one for flatpicking, a small bag of "give away " picks for those even more forgetful than I, a small notebook and pencil for notes, an A 440 fork, a notebook with song sheets as needed, two fiddle bows sometimes three, business cards, alcohol wipes to clean rosin buildup from the fiddle strings, tuner batteries , a small tool to tighten the chin rest hardware , three cloths, a drape to keep the bow rosin off the instruments..... Yeah I think that's it..... Now my gig bag ....
    I love hanging out with mandolin nerds . . . . . Thanks peeps ...

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    In the main compartment with the mandolin:
    • An Oasis hygrometer
    • A braided Lakota Leathers strap (attached)
    • A D'Addario Micro Tuner (attached)
    • A BlueChip pick under the G, D, and A strings between the 3rd and 5th frets

    In the under the neck compartment:
    • A full set of new strings
    • The paper insert from my old set of strings (since I've been trying a bunch out and want to remember what they were if I really like them)
    • A Dudenbostel string winder
    • A pair of 4 1/4" Knipex diagonal cutters
    • A Collings cleaning cloth (it's so heavy and lovely)
    • A mints tin with a ton of random picks
    • A spare CR2032 battery

    In the tail end compartment (it's a Calton Mandolin Deluxe case):
    • A Wittner Taktell Super-Mini Metronome
    • A Northfield Instruments pick box with my main picks

    Pretty much just ready for anything, lol.
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    I wish I had one of those for my case! Instead I have a husband with allergies and three fine canines. Actually, one of the dogs would climb into my case, I think, if I left it somewhere accessible to her.
    Phoebe, my 2021 Collings MT mandolin
    Dolly, my 2021 Ibanez M522 mandolin
    Louise, my 193x SS Maxwell mandolin
    Fiona, My 2021 GSM guitar-bodied octave resonator mandolin
    Charlotte, my 2016 Eastman MDO 305 octave mandolin
    And Giuliana, my 2002 Hans Schuster 505 violin, Nehenehe, my 2021 Aklot concert ukulele,
    Annie, my 2022 Guild M-140 guitar, Joni, my 1963 Harmony 1215 Archtone archtop guitar,
    Yoko, my ca. 1963 Yamaha Dynamic No.15 guitar, and Rich, my 1959 husband.

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    Nothing.

    I might get one of these some day:

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Bernstein View Post
    Nothing.
    Not even a mandolin !?!

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    I regularly play several different instruments so I carry a bag that has tuners, tools, strings, straps, etc. My cases are generally empty except for instruments. I did get a cool case candy gift recently. I got a custom parlor guitar from the builder at his place and his young daughter had carved his business initials into a smooth creek bottom stone. That thing will live in the case from now on.

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Picks, strings, tuner, strap, tool, winder, cloth, humidifier, pencil... oh yeah, one mandolin.

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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Depending on the case ... extra picks, wire cutters, string winder, Oasis humidifier too dried out to use, band biz cards. i keep the tuner on the mandolin(s) and a pick in the strings. I believe one of my cases has an extra set of strings. Outside one case in the pocket are my cables (a short one and a long one) for playing wired up. I also have an old leather briefcase that contains a foot rest (like classical guitarists use), writing implements (pencils and pens that may or may not work), an old pair of glasses, folding stand, clip-on LED light, clothespin and whatever sheet music I'm playing from (it used to double as a gig bag but now i only use it when I'm playing classical with others).
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    Default Re: What's in your case?

    Quote Originally Posted by Round2 View Post
    I ask from curiosity, and in a search for inspiration: Other than your mandolin, what do you keep in your case or gig bag? I keep an extra set of strings and some picks. How about you?
    - Altoids box with a Dawg pick, ProPlec 1.5 large triangle pick, a Primetone 1.5 smooth brown large triangle pick
    - a cleaning/polishing cloth
    - a truss rod Allen wrench
    - a McClung arm rest adjustment tool
    - a hygrometer
    - a Bailey strap attached at the heel; the other is wrapped around the headstock area
    - the empty pkg from my last string change with the date of the string change written on it

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