Another option- especially for those musicians with periodically recurring gigs in the same places- is to stash theorboes at the different locations. At a certain point, the cumulative expenses for super cases, cases-for-the cases, and multiple first class tickets is going to reach the price of a theorbo anyway. The late Zia Moihuddin Dagar used to keep three Rudra Vinas around the world (large bass size vina, with two huge gourd resonators at each end) one in Mumbai, one in Calcutta, and one in Chicago.
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