Opsimath
Senior Member
Please forgive me for asking a rather uninformed question, but is there a reason why bass cases are rectangular and not instrument shaped like other cases?
You need to expand your sample size.Please forgive me for asking a rather uninformed question, but is there a reason why bass cases are rectangular and not instrument shaped like other cases?
Fender always took their design model from Leo who wanted instruments that were modular, easily built, and highly functional. He came from the world of radio and electronics repair. Unlike Gibson at al. who had a long tradition of guitars shaped and built on the classical and archtop models....
Fenders like their Stratocaster guitars usually come in rectangular cases, so I guess the Pilot bass followed that example.
Ralf
I have a fender bass case that is flat on upper bout side, form fitted on the lower bout side. My Strat case is the same. They are both from 2004, iirc.
You need to expand your sample size.
In general solid body electric instruments - bass or guitar - come in rectangular cases. Acoustic basses or guitars fit in "guitar shaped" cases.
Here are two semi-hollow electric basses in shaped cases.
Here's a B50 in case.
And here's a Pilot case before it became home to my stickers.
I think the largest case I've had to deal with, so far, has been when I briefly owned a Gibson Firebird. Long, wide, but also thicker to accommodate the breadstick angle (not flat like a Fender).Bass cases are intrinsically awkward because a typical bass is larger than a typical guitar and thus the case is larger. I do find that I have to make a different adjustment walking up stairs with a Pilot in a case compared to the B50. The upstairs end of the rectangular case hits the stair under circumstances where the narrow headstock end of the B50 doesn't. I often have one of Mrs. Fro's cased guitars in one hand and a cased bass in the other and that is easier if the cases are similarly shaped.
My worst of both worlds comment was somewhat tongue in cheek but I would definitely need to get some other things out of the trunk if I were playing Case Tetris with a Poodle Case.
There is definitely some "stuff that lives in the trunk" sort of on top of the Pilot and behind the Starfire and that would need to be elsewhere with a Poodle case.
"Go Nude Texas"??!
walrus
I think the largest case I've had to deal with, so far, has been when I briefly owned a Gibson Firebird. Long, wide, but also thicker to accommodate the breadstick angle (not flat like a Fender).
"Go Nude Texas"??!
walrus