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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
They save weight. They don't save a large percentage of the overall weight of the stand, but they make it less top-heavy and therefore more stable when raised high or angled back a long way.
Just to ...
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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
A loose page settles faster on the stand (and is easier to remove) when the air behind it can escape. That's at least the reasoning behind the namesake "vent hole". In practice, this is of relevance ...
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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
I run the sound system at my church, and I have found that the music stands with holes make it easier for the musicians and vocalists to hear themselves in the stage monitors. The solid music stands ...
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Keeping single sheets of music on the stand
Any basic folding stand has little clips that fold up to stop your pages flipping, or a sheet falling off.
tbh, it was only a search on Amazon that threw up solid face ones without clips that made me ...
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How to fix floppy scores
Phoog's idea is a great simple solution. If you need a more permanent one, you'll need to pop rivet, screw or weld an extension to the top, which may impede the foldability of the stand.
Looking at ...
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How to fix floppy scores
Print it on better paper -- if you can (commercially available performance materials are never printed on paper as flimsy as most people use in their printers and photocopiers).
But good paper can be ...
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Is it bad to leave my microphone in its clip?
Among the many cases I had to deal with something mic-related failing (most often cables or stands, but also microphones themselves, including the sturdy SM58), I can't recall ever having problems ...
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Are cross-legged digital keyboard stands comfortable while playing seated
Knee room isn't a problem. Stability may be. But I've been gigging (literally) the same X-stands for about 40 years, and they haven't let me down yet!
They're the type with a brace though. I don'...
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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
@topo morto is correct when he talks about weight. It most likely lowers the centre of gravity of the stand, stopping it from falling over. Another major reason is that it would reduce the weight of a ...
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How to fix floppy scores
One sort of fix is to use three or four of those "wind clips", but just attach them to the stand itself, sticking up as far as you like, to provide support for the music. (Not clipping the ...
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Is it bad to leave my microphone in its clip?
The clip isn't likely to get worn out very fast. Furthermore, the clip will actually likely get worn out faster by having the mic taken in and out than by just staying in the same place all the time (...
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Is it bad to leave my microphone in its clip?
Treatb the microphone with a bit of care, the SM58 is a rugged old warhorse but you might as well keep it un-dented! I wouldn't worry about the clip. They rarely break unless they get stepped on.
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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
I agree that weight is probably the reason, but that can't be the whole story – you could always achieve a lower mass by just making the stand out of thinner sheet metal.
The problem with that is ...
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Are cross-legged digital keyboard stands comfortable while playing seated
In my experience, cross stands are always a touch unstable, because of the way they're constructed - the connections to the legs are in the center of the leg, and usually only only attached by one ...
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Attachable Piano Stand
Most of the time, a piano as light as this would just be put onto an X-stand. I only use X-stands for the lightest of keyboards - and never for gigging! A Z-stand will do fine instead, or one with ...
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Where does this O-ring belong on this Blue microphone?
If the contour of the contoured washer (usually called a "saddle washer") mates snugly with the barrel of the microphone (as it seems to), I would assume they are meant to contact directly, ...
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Where does this O-ring belong on this Blue microphone?
I guess between 'contoured washer' and mic body. Shoud be a matching one the other side.
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Fixing keyboard stand
Get a stand with four legs, in two pairs, one left, one right. They're far more stable - I will use only them for gigs, as the X stands aren't that stable. Put the keyboard against the wall, and there'...
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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
Now that I'm playing a trumpet, I realize that playing with the horn directed at the music stand will make it sound muted. Holes might give me something else to shoot at. While On-Stage Music Stands ...
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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
When using a music stand with a solid back in a recording studio around super sensitive mics vocalist and other instruments can resonate the stand and you can actually hear it in certain circumstances....
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What do 'vent holes' do on a music stand?
Sam is correct when referring to shipping costs, but has missed out a bit. The less material used in manufacturing, the lower the cost. Also, the metal that would have been in the holes would be used ...
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