Monday, April 20, 2009

Mike Hummel's Progress

I've been out of class the last week due to an illness so this is my first post in a little while. I decided to build a rack that will hold my synth above my digital piano. The rack will attach to my stand that I already have for my piano. My current configuration:As you can see it's a little more difficult to play both instruments at once because of the way they are angled and on top of that I'm losing a lot of desk space. My rack will eliminate both of these problems.

So today I started making the rack with making some cuts on the chop saw and doing some welding and grinding to make the joints. Here is my rack so far:
It's a little hard to see but bsically it has 1" square tubing in the shape of 'C's on both sides and two .5" tubing running the length of the rack where the instrument will sit. I also made two little stoppers by bending sheet metal and welding it to the rack. These will hold the instrument in place since my rack is angled downwards. It is hemmed at the top so it doesn't cut my wrist when playing:

Weds. I will be bringing in my digital piano stand to do some drilling for bolts that will attach the rack to the stand.





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