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Mary Ann wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 12:57 pm

LibraryMark wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 11:58 am My Ipad is laughing right now.

If you also get phone calls on your ipad (I have no idea if you can) then you could make that laugh the ring tone.
However, if there is a gust of wind strong enough to blow your stand over, it's my cook book cover that's going to be laughing at your ipad.

It's been dropped a few times, never a scratch. Gusts of wind that make everyone else's music go flying don't bother it. If it's really, really windy, I just step on the stand base but I really don't have to. I'm never going back to the days of flying paper.

Keep on with the drop test, and get back with us...

thanks!

I bind my music for outdoor concerts and use Manhasset Music Clips to hold the binder and a small weight to keep the pages open where I want.

I tried hiring a sky-writer to write out the music with their airplane exhaust on a windy day, so that my stand didn't blow over and my music didn't blow away, but - when we tried it - they couldn't write the notes fast enough and (well...) the strong wind blew the notes away as fast as they wrote them and also they were doubling as a cloud-seeder that day, so it rained all over the event. It really was a horrible failure.

Well, on to the next idea...

I phone in my parts from a wind-free, inclusive "safe space".

see...??

That's why we have this website:

...so we can talk these issues out, and come up with the best solutions to our problems.

the elephant wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 11:18 am the most common music stand in the nation is still the Manhasset, which uses a non-ferrous, aluminum desk.

Magnets do not stick to them.

winner winner

oh, and this

Mary Ann wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 12:57 pm

LibraryMark wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 11:58 am My Ipad is laughing right now.

If you also get phone calls on your ipad (I have no idea if you can) then you could make that laugh the ring tone.
However, if there is a gust of wind strong enough to blow your stand over, it's my cook book cover that's going to be laughing at your ipad.

An ipad is a tablet, not a phone, and even if it was, there is zero reason to have a tab on the air when running music! Airplane mode is your friend . . . (Or at least turn off WiFi if you need Bluetooth for a pedal).

dp wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 9:42 am

the elephant wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 11:18 am the most common music stand in the nation is still the Manhasset, which uses a non-ferrous, aluminum desk.

Magnets do not stick to them.

winner winner

oh, and this

...but the Manhasset version features double the magnets which are color coded. One color goes on the music side and one color goes on the back side opposite the ones on the music side.

When you turn pages, just get the third trumpet player in front of you to move the magnets on the back to where they need to be.

re: tablets on stands at outdoor gigs...
I don't even bring my expensive tubas when I play outdoor gigs, much less a $1,000 paper substitute.

I'm still not sure where you get $1000 for a tablet . . . Nice 12 to 14 inch units that are grossly in excess of what is needed for sheet music can be found used for less than $150 . . .

(And lately, if I had a specific 'good horn', I'd play maybe one gig a year on it and practice . . . the summer stuff is just about 100 percent outdoors . . . )

So, going to try the tab on a mount, on a wide based mic stand (maybe shot bags also). Low wind resistance, and with 25lbs on each leg, well, if it bows over, the tuba will already be midflight a county over . . . :-)

I’ve decided now to forgo the music and stand issues. I’ve elected instead to go full Milli Vanilli and from now on will be Lip Syncing all outdoor performances. This will also allow for elaborate dance maneuvers with horn. Twirling & twerking have not been ruled out!

I’ve been using stand magnets for maybe the last decade and before that used pegs and bulldog clips. The magnets look like chess pawns and when bought as fridge magnets are cheap, but expensive when bought as music magnets. Us brass banders hate page turns and mostly our music doesn’t need them, given outdoor playing your music will get blown away or fall on the floor so use at least two small magnets on sheet music and a couple of cloths pegs on March books.