freak jury opinions sought. WIDE (will light up TWO pages) rechargeable multi-LED clamp-on stand lights

[bloke]

- width
- number of LEDs
- brightness
- battery life
- recharging speed
- optional 120V power
- durability
- affordability
- ...and such

This one seems to be the best seller on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Glocusent-Bright ... 2527?psc=1

The second-best seller is about five bucks cheaper:
https://www.amazon.com/Vekkia-Rechargea ... 32527?th=1

newer version of biggest seller: (costs more)
https://www.amazon.com/Glocusent-Music- ... itle_light

[MiBrassFS]

Edit: I can’t see the link in my own post. I don’t know what’s up with that, but apparently bloke has rejected it anyway so the heck with it!

[bloke]

thnx...
' pretty sure that's precisely what I have...dim, narrow, expensive, batteries are disposable

...I just went ahead and had my daughter use her Amazon account to buy me the most popular one...(??)

FREE "EXCELLENT USED" MIGHTY BRITE WITH EVERY CHROME-PLATED 2-VALVE G-MELLOPHONE PURCHASE !!!

[MiBrassFS]

I think there’s a couple of different versions, but I’m not sure. I bought them and didn’t look back…

I can’t see your links. I’m thinking some sort of software update got me. Pffft.

Dija get the “costs more” option? (If I hit quote I can see what you posted…)

[peterbas]

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[bloke]

If I didn't misread, it appears as though they can be recharged via a USB port. That seems handy enough. Of course, those things are all around my laptop, I wouldn't mind purchasing one of those wall outlets which has one of those built in "just because", and being able to recharge from an adapter in my cigarette lighter on the way to a job when I forgot to charge it up before leaving home seems like a handy option.

[Mary Ann]

if it said usb-C and all you have is "regular" usb, you'll have to get an adaptor.

[Pauvog1]

I bought one from my local music store, and it has two antenna with multiple LED lights in each, and it works well for me. I like that I can move the lights to overlap ( or not ) as needed. It worked better for me than the old school (pre -LED) lights that I used prior (provided by a local church). Mine is easy for 2 pages, and "ok" for 3 pages.

[peterbas]

if it said usb-C and all you have is "regular" usb, you'll have to get an adaptor.

You only need a USB -A to USB-C cable. It is only a power connection, no data transfer at all.

[bloke]

My daughter bought it for me with her Prime account so I got free shipping. Her state has income tax and all that stuff so her sales tax was a little bit lower than mine would have been (as my state hardly taxes anything other than sales).

Changing the topic to sort of an old topic (where trolling became involved), for those of you who have facebook, here's either a reel or an ad about a lyre holder that is designed to hold your phone. (I would assume there's sheet music on the phone.) I don't see this (suction-cupping a $300 to $1600 phone to a lyre holder) as any better an idea than setting a $300 to $1,000 tablet on a music stand (to get knocked on the floor by a colleague or by oneself), as I would have to assume that the suction cup would eventually fail and the phone would hit the ground and then get stepped on - particularly if this involves some sort of marching (such as a Mardi Gras parade or something like that).
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DforW ... 7S9Ucbxw6v

I'm eager to get that new music stand light. One of the freeway philharmonics with which I'm involved ditched their incandescent 110 volt stand lights and bought two sets of these for the entire orchestra. One set stays on chargers and one set is on the stands. It wasn't until I saw how well present generation stand lights light up the sheet music that I knew I needed to replace my own.

As far as using tablets during rehearsals is concerned, I believe my friend, John Rojak, has the right idea: I remember *sitting through the first and third movements of Dvorak 9 one time, he had his tablet on his lap, was catching up on emails regarding American Brass Quintet engagements, and then picking up his bass trombone just in time to play the licks.
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*I'm now recalling that Michael Stern suggested that I play along on anything I felt was appropriate in those movements. I played nothing, as I don't view it as appropriate to play along.

[peterbas]

Sacrilege, string ensemble using tablets.
Soloist isn't up to speed yet.

[bloke]

I remembered the tablet topic when I was up in the balcony in Pittsburgh, and I didn't see any evidence of use of tablets on stage. I looked around the sections throughout the concert, saw pages being turned, and no screens being touched.
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I'm going to have to put some more stringent requirements on me being coaxed into using one to read music. First, besides being 10 by 14 in, it will need to fold out double so I can see two pages at once just as with most paper music, and the battery will need to last 14 hours or so as with a stand light. Finally, the most it can cost would be 50 bucks, because I know it's going to get knocked off the stand. I don't pay $50 for restaurant food, which is why I don't go to restaurants, but I might pay 50 bucks for a double screened extra extra large tablet with extra extra long battery life, again: at least until it gets knocked off the stand and broken, at which time I would expect the librarian to be in the wings and ready to immediately hand me the paper music so that I could continue on without missing a beat.

As previously stated, it's simply a technology too far, and the use of technology just because technology can be used. It reminds me a little bit of people who put on scuba gear and get married underwater, or who put on parachutes and getting married while skydiving.

[Mary Ann]

I actually recently bought an old-fashioned plug-in stand light designed to clamp onto a Manhasset. I like the light better than LED light. It is portable because I have a small Jackery power source that I can also take with me and which just sits on the floor under the stand, and I can plug in the light. Voila! It will keep going for four or five hours without needing a recharge. I bought this Jackery set (one big, one little) at the beginning of the scamdemic, from Costco.

[peterbas]

The quality of LEDs is getting better all the time, especially colour reproduction.
They are now as good as incandescent light, but not in this cheap lights yet but I don't think it will take long.

[peterbas]

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[bloke]

None of the local marching bands carry any displayed music with them on the field (which is where the overwhelming majority of their rehearsing and performing occurs).
When I repair all their instruments in the summer. I'm tossing photocopied music and marching charts in the trash from all schools' instruments' cases.

finally...

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[travisd]

Changing the topic to sort of an old topic (where trolling became involved), for those of you who have facebook, here's either a reel or an ad about a lyre holder that is designed to hold your phone. (I would assume there's sheet music on the phone.) I don't see this (suction-cupping a $300 to $1600 phone to a lyre holder) as any better an idea than setting a $300 to $1,000 tablet on a music stand (to get knocked on the floor by a colleague or by oneself), as I would have to assume that the suction cup would eventually fail and the phone would hit the ground and then get stepped on - particularly if this involves some sort of marching (such as a Mardi Gras parade or something like that).
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DforW ... 7S9Ucbxw6v

Show up at a college marching band practice nowadays and you'll likely not see any musicians carrying printed music in ye olde flip-folders of yore - they're all using their phone, for music and drill.

I did some holiday alumni pep-band dates a couple years ago - the youngsters were reading off their phones, while I'm over here using a 12" iPad (with a cool case that I've had for a while with a rotating hand strap on the back that makes one-handed use very secure).

As far as phone attachments to holders - there's some very secure ones out there, usually targeted at the motorcycle crowd (using them for navigation and what-not). No clue if the Lyre folks are going for anything that good or not. The spring-clamp holders work pretty good for a lot of situations. Keep in mind that there's a lot more use cases for strapping a phone to something than just music reading and automotive use - things like photography (gimbals and selfie-sticks) have been refining the "how to attach a phone to something" for years now.

[bloke]

I wouldn't risk it.
Lyre holders bust off of instruments, and I wouldn't be wagging my phone around on a foobaw field - particularly not when a couple hundred other peeps are walking in the same places I'm walking...
...OK. College children are probably dumb enough to do that, so never mind...and - up to age 25 or so - I guess that - when stuff gets torn up or stolen - their parents are still replacing it for them.

[Colby Fahrenbacher]

It’s always nice to see that Bloke is so bored and petty that he’ll derail his own thread with troll-bait that he has no intention of participating in a legitimate conversation about.

To be fair, the original post ask for opinions, but no one’s opinions mattered because he had already made a decision and made the purchase within half an hour posting

[bloke]

you got it, bub...and - being a librarian - I'm picking up on your sheet music-related fetish.

...now: Go out into the world and - with no evidence to bring to the table yourself - libel yet another teacher.

bloke "hey...I trolled you yet again, did I not?" (though it took a couple of days)"