My son loves this case for his trumpet. It fits the trumpet, the mute, some cleaning supplies and some sheet music for his class. He keeps most of the music in a binder, but it's convenient that he can fit the piece they're working on now in there. The longer strap makes it easy to carry when he's got his other instruments with him. He prefers the short handles most of the time. The soft bag helps in school; his old hard case was getting complaints from other kids about accidentally getting hit, or their instrument cases getting hit, but this one hasn't generated one complaint while still being hard enough to fully protect the trumpet. His old case broke beyond repair when he tripped and fell on it last spring and we replaced it with this one. So far, it's been used in high school for the spring semester, made it through a move over the summer, and now we're back to school and it still looks brand new. I'm very happy with the purchase, although I was ambivalent about the pricing I now think it is totally worth it.