Customer Reviews

Musician's Gear 49-Key Keyboard Gig Bag

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I bought the Musicians Gear 61-Key Keyboard Gig Bag from Amazon/Musicians friend. Looks like the 49 is the same exact case, just a little smaller to accomodate a 49 keyboard case. For the money you can't beat it. You also can't beat the bag, and I mean that literally. It has about a half inch of foam, protected by a nicely rugged material that is sure to wear and stand up to a lot of abuse for a long time.
I was perplexed when trying to decide which bag to get, wondering just how much protection they each had. Since I bought this from the picture, it was hard to figure out. So someone else in this position would like to know, that if you plan on transporting your 49 key keyboard occassionally, it is great for that. If I was a roady, with frequent gigs, I would be looking for a hardshell case, with a thick foam interior to really do the job.
Since this case is thick fabric, and a half inch of foam, it will prevent your keyboard from getting scraped up transporting it around, and will be forgiving when you give it a light bump, but for serious protection, you need a hardshell case with thick foam.
I don't want you to misunderstand me, I love this gig bag. It is exactly what I need, and the price is almost too good to be true. You can't beat it. The side has a larger pouch that will fit a laptop or some gear, like your footpedals. There is a smaller pouch sewed onto the outside of the laptop pouch so to speak, you could put a foot pedal in there, maybe two.
I couldn't see the more expensive bags being made out of better material, but I could see a lot thicker foam, to protect the keyboard against banging into a door jamb for example.
Nice case for the money. Built strong out of nice material, but the foam is a little thinner then would be required to better protect your keyboard against serious bumps. For my needs, I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

This is an okay bag - certainly not bad for the price. But, it's huge!! The bag is 36"x 14"x 5". My keyboard (49 key - which is on the small side) is 28"x 8"x 2.5"!! My keyboard swims inside. Not very good for protection.

I don't know how anybody could say this is good protection for a keyboard this size. I'm returning it. After checking, seems to be the size lots of other "49 key" cases are. Check your keyboard's measurements.

I bought this for the combination of good comments and good price.
The bag is sized for a very specific keyboard, it seems.
IT doesn't fit any 49 keyboard I know and most 61's.
THe provider, Musician's Friend wants me to repack it and pay for the UPS shipping
if I want a refund. It doesn't make any sense.
Oh, the bag? it would be an OK bag if it could fit anything snugly.

This bag is well constructed with solid stitching and enough padding for moderate gigging (don't expect the durability of a hard case, but this is a well made soft case). The laptop-sized pocket on the front isn't padded, but is a great place to store manuals, cables, power supplies, etc

I have more than one 49 key keyboard and I'm not sure if the user complaining about it being too small ordered the correct product or just has unusually large equipment, or mine is unusually small. :) I had the opposite problem of the keyboards swimming around in the bag due to all of the extra room.

I resolved the problem by making my own cardboard divider frame with some gaffer tape, and now I can put both my M-Audio Venom and a full size 49 key controller only keyboard in the same bag. The controller has no knobs, display, etc. so really it can store 1-1/2 49 key keyboards or one super big one. :)

I'm planning on getting a second bag and using the same methodology of adding a cardboard divider to store 2 Oxygen8 25-key keyboards and some additional gear. There's a little bit of manual work to maximize the space usage, but I love this bag because you can't seem to get this much space in a keyboard bag without paying 50% more.

Protective, but too big for many midi controllers. Wish it included a removable section divider to keep the instrument planted in one half of the case.

This is a well-built keyboard bag, especially for the price. The materials are very durable and sturdy, and there's about a half-inch of padding on all sides.

Like other reviewers have said, this bag is a little too big for a 49-key keyboard. I have a Novation Impulse 49, which is about the biggest 49 I've seen, as it has Mod & Pitch wheels on the side along with a slew of Midi sliders and pads on top. There's still about 2-3" on all sides when it's in the bag. It's still fine, but if I had a smaller keyboard (like an Axiom 49 or Oxygen 49) it might be too much space. However, I think this is the norm with keybaord bags, They all seem to error on the side of being to big.

I just called on this case, which i was supposed to receive earlier this week. It was stuck in processing, so will arrive at the end of NEXT week. This is pretty bogus, and i received zero information about the delay. Had i not called, it would have been stuck in the processing queue for ever probably.