What is the best insurance for your herringbone guitar, Tubaphone banjo, or Sears and Roebuck Strad copy fiddle?
It is not necessarily a rider on your home owners policy. In fact, it is the case the instrument is stored in when you’re not playing. Cases are quite expensive these days. Most hard shell cases sell for between $90 and $175. They are made to take abuse so your instrument doesn’t have to. With years of road use handles fall off, latches break, and cases come unglued. A few home repairs can get your case back into solid shape and keep your instrument safer than Marlin in the helicopter. The easiest repair is replacing the handle. All of us have had to use shoe laces for a case handle at one time or another. By about the third month of saying, ‘Hey, I ought to get a new handle,’ the shoe lace will break. If you are lucky, the handle loops on your case will be perpendicular to the top and bottom of your case. (Illustration 1) If the new handle through the loop and back up through the buckle. There are two types of emergency handles available: standard and steel reinforced. I highly recomm
