Poor Man's Clarinet Stand

I decided to take up clarinet again after many years away from it. One thing I needed was a clarinet stand, as I didn't want to prop the clarinet up on the couch or a chair and have someone accidentally park themselves on it.  Prices for stands ranged from around $10 to $40, and being the son of Swedish peasants that I am, I looked for something that might fit the bill but for next-to-nothing.

I had a solution sitting right in our studio--the carrier/media spindle for a 200 pack of CDs/DVDs. The central pillar is fairly strong. This is what the spindle without the clear plastic cover looks like:

Step 1 Spindle turned into cheapo clarinet stand

Here's my self-reburbished Henkin on the new stand. I found it to be very stable.

Comments

[Anodean]

Thanks for this - I've been looking for something to display recorder flutes. :D

However, it looks to me as though this might be an Eb soprano clarinet, as opposed to the more familiar Bb - if so, you might want to say so and spare some poor noob a split reed or bent key. ;)

[happyjo]

If I can get ahold of a cd case thing I will for sure use this for my clarinet!