Customer Reviews

Musician's Gear Wooden Music Stand (Standard)

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This music stand is a piece of garbage. The connecting faceplate splintered as I put it together. Although I repaired it using wood glue, the music holder does not hold the position it is tilted to and tumbles your music to the floor. STAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!!!

I came to Amazon just now to purchase a second music stand of this type, and was surprised to find the unfavorable reviews left by other Amazon users. We have had our first stand for more than a year now and it has worked perfectly since we first assembled it. The color of the wood stain is quite red, but we're actually rather fond of that, too. My mate wishes that her cello (also made in China) were such a lively color!

My mate and I are both adult beginners (she of cello, and me of recorder) and this stand is just what we need. It is affordable, functional, and attractive. It fits in nicely with the woodwork in our cozy, old Craftsman home.

Your experience may differ, but we have been completely satisfied with this music stand. And the price simply cannot be beat. Thirty dollars for a wooden music stand?

Like another reviewer, I'm surprised that this stand has had such negative comments. Sure, it's not perfect by any means, but it's more attractive than most other metallic-looking and bland-looking stands out there. There's not a lot of shelf space to put music sheets on but then my daughter is just a budding violinist, so it is serving its function very well for now. As mentioned, it is reddish-brown, and does blend with the rest of our music room's color scheme. You have to take that into account, if it's important to you.

Well, it's red, not a very realistic mahogany...a color I can almost work with.

The music shelf doesn't appear to work (can't tilt the shelf to an angle that will keep the music where you want it). But my husband, for which this is a gift, may be able to fix that with a washer.

But if he can't, we're sending it back. You're getting what you pay for, essentially, but it has to at least function.

Followup: My husband did fix it. We really like the wide music stand and lip that holds everything from pencils to harmonicas. It's much more attractive than the old metal stands we used to have in our music room. Hey, for 30 bucks, it's great!

The color was truly horrendous- not a cherry wood, but a bright red, and the stand was rickety. It would not tilt to hold music and seemed poorly made. Was very disappointed. Returned to seller.

This music stand made with beautiful wood finish and looks great! However, If you are always wanting adjusting it it's not as easy to adjust as other stands. My wife's a violin instructor and we get complements on it all the time, but it's a drag since her students are different sizes and so she has to adjust the height often. Sometimes as you're adjusting it the stand will tilt causing music to fall off.

I purchased this stand directly from Musician's Friend two years ago when it was on sale for $30. It is, indeed, as red as the other reviewers have noted, but I do not think many people will find it "garishly" red. The stand assembled easily, but it is not nearly as functional as the metal Manhasset stands and their clones. My chief problem with it is that the stand will not support a book (e.g., a Dover edition of Bach cantatas, or other such heavier scores from which I conduct. I have not yet found the right "fix" for this, but I'm sure it exists. If you are an instrumentalist who is not likely to have more than a 20-page part on this stand, it really does look nice in the music room. But if you're a choir director/conductor looking for a stand, I suggest you search Amazon under "lectern" to find a sturdier support.

The stand is very pretty. The top where you put the actual music is tippy and doesn't stay in position well.

With wooden music stands at my local piano store going for over $100, this one at $40 is definitely a decent deal.

When I took mine out of the box I was surprised by how RED it is. Garishly, unnaturally red. It also had a few dings and scratches on it, so I took it out to the garage and gave it a coat of wood stain, dark walnut. Now it looks lovely. It is a vast improvement over the little collapsible wire music stand I was using before, in both appearance and stability. I'm glad I ordered it.

Not well made -- hardware was stripped after a few uses and my husband had to bodge a fix for it. Stand still tilts and dumped music unexpectedly. Look elsewhere.