Low budget cool gear Part 2

[Yuperdo]

Soooo after the cheap Freehands Music Pad + stand solution (Part 1 (http://www.jordanrudess.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9756)) I found another cool cheap part of gear, namely a rotating keyboard stand.

Standbuilder pack your bags, we are all gonna do it ourselves now! All you need is a rotating chair, preferably with arm rests, and something like a wooden or metal box to increase the height. Just stack it on top of eachother and voila, an easy and cheap rotating keyboard stand!

Short demonstration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2VrlVnTTU) on YouTube.

[Disclaimer: This topic is pure for entertainment purposes, nothing from it's content may be published or redistributed without explicit permission from the author. Don't try this at home or with keyboards worth more than 100 bucks, no animals were hurt during the recording of this movie, because I didn't had my killer mode on, it's just a bit of Erotomania. Loss of waranty resulting from the collapsing of your own stand is not my problem, you should have build it more solid.]

[attic-keys]

Dude, the whole issue with rotating stand is that it's supposed to look cool and give the keyboard player some movement.
First this is far from cool, using furniture on stage, ?
Second you can move with it,
alright if you place a cheap ass light weight casio or whatever on there, but keyboard players who use such stands have a style where they use one big ass workstation.
Don't tell me that a desk chair can hold that much weight let alone stand stable if it's lifted using some plastic Curver box.

But on the other hand it also has some style and it is a cheap solution and maybe if you put some effort in it you can pimp a chair into a stand and reinforce it so that it can hold the weight of a 88 note workstation.

EDIT: I just saw that you are also a dutch guy, we call this: nederlandse krenterigheid.

[acidremz]

haha nice job :D

[Omega Monkey]

Don't tell me that a desk chair can hold that much weight

Uhm, it's a CHAIR. It's designed to hold people up to about 200 pounds or so. An 80 pound workstation should be no problem.

Anyway, using an office style swivel chair is a good idea, because you have the hardware there, but the ideal would be to strip out what you need (ie the feet and the rotating mechanism) and add whatever else you need (ie a platform and "tube").

[jeebustrain]

Uhm, it's a CHAIR. It's designed to hold people up to about 200 pounds or so. An 80 pound workstation should be no problem.

Anyway, using an office style swivel chair is a good idea, because you have the hardware there, but the ideal would be to strip out what you need (ie the feet and the rotating mechanism) and add whatever else you need (ie a platform and "tube").


it also has that nifty tilter thing that allows you to tilt the board forward and show what you're playing to the audience, Derek Sherinian style. That'll get you all kinds of laid.

[Yuperdo]

Uhm, it's a CHAIR. It's designed to hold people up to about 200 pounds or so. An 80 pound workstation should be no problem.

Anyway, using an office style swivel chair is a good idea, because you have the hardware there, but the ideal would be to strip out what you need (ie the feet and the rotating mechanism) and add whatever else you need (ie a platform and "tube").

The seat 'cushion' is screwed onto a small platform, so it's only a matter of 4 screws and you got a nice attachment point for a platform to place your board on. The only real problem is to bring it up to height, you could do something with extending the shaft that hold the rotating mechanism, or, as I did, put it onto something solid (An aluminum box).

it also has that nifty tilter thing that allows you to tilt the board forward and show what you're playing to the audience, Derek Sherinian style. That'll get you all kinds of laid.

My chair can only go up and down unfortunatly and it has build-in massage function, but that isn't really of any practical use on stage when my keyboard hangs on it...

Ow and Attic-keys, don't take it too serious man, I was just having a laugh when the connection board->chair->raise chair with random box->rotating stand popped up in my mind. Just wanted to share it with you guys.

Cheers

[Taurus]

you friggen rock