• 1 case, 3 broken keyboards, something breaks every flight.

  

  As reviewed by Robert on 9/2/2009

  I have an SKB 5820W that I bought from Guitar Center less then a year ago. Every time the band flys, which is about twice a month, something breaks on it. The first time it broke, I went to guitar center and they told me it had a life time warranty, so I wrote to SKB and they sent me two new clasps. Since then, two more clasps have broken on it, the corner supports inside that hold the keyboard have cracked, one wheel has broken off, and the case itself has cracked. It is now one sad looking case that I am embarrassed to show up at sound check with. On top of that, the clasps just pop open in flight, and I?m normally given a broken keyboard in an open case at the end of my journey (literally, something breaks every trip. This is my third keyboard this year!). My current keyboard is a very standard Yamaha P140 ( http://www.andertons.co.uk/and_news_files/images/yamaha-p140.jpg), and because of weight requirements on airlines I never have anything else in the case. The keyboard before it was a Casio PX320, and before that was an M-audio Keystation Pro 88 (we just use them as midi controllers). Each one was destroyed in flight and delivered to me down the luggage belt in an opened and broken case. Please note that with the exception of the Yamaha, this case cost $100 MORE then the keyboards themselves!!! I?ve got another flight Thursday, and I?m baffled what I should do. I bought this case less then a year ago, and its constantly breaking, and my keyboards are constantly breaking, and as far I know I?m doing nothing at all wrong: put keyboard in case, hand airlines. I guess the moral of the story is, this case is not REALLY made to fly, even though it is there most expensive case.

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• Didn't t fit my board

  

  As reviewed by Jst303 on 12/20/2006

  SKB needs to do thier homework. They claimed it would fit my board, and it didnt. The case has no side padding so if your board doesnt fit into the area with the little velcro padded corners they provide, you'll have no side padding in the case, and the board could slide around. Very poor design in my opinion.It should be about an inch bigger on all sides to accodomate more board styles.

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