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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
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LOL. That.
Somewhat OT: You can skip this if you're not interested why I need a particular tablet and/or tablet stand.
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Well, I should be receiving the pencil sleeve today.
I should also receive a tablet stand next wednesday which needs to be able to serve one very particular niche goal. (I need to be able to position it on the fallboard of a piano, with the back "leg" as a strut set against the actual music desk.) If it can do this and the pencil sleeve + tablet TPU back case don't work together, I'll just replace the TPU case with a book cover, which only snaps around the corners and leaves free the side of the tablet where the pencil should connect for charging. (This also gives me a stand capability when actually writing on the tablet when it lies down on the table, when I'm annotating sheet music.)
Currently, the TPU case is used to protect both the piano and tablet from scratches, and the back "strut" is a thick piece of cardboard duct-taped as a hinge against the TPU case. It works, but it's not really... premium... to say the least.
The ordered stand obviously has its own silicone anti-slip strip and feet.
It is, actually, quite difficult to find a stand with an adjustable angle in the form of an inverted V that is also big enough to support an iPad Pro 12.9 inch. Most stands are a base plate, pole, and a slanted "desk" part which in this use-case doesn't work.
Why not just use paper you say?
1. I need something bigger than A4. Sheet music, in the end, takes up a massive amount of space. (Been there, done that... I gave everything away when I switched from church organ to piano.) The needed size is either A3 (way too huge) or landscape A4 (needs double the amount of pages). An iPad 12.9 inch is ALMOST as big as an A4, and in landscape, is the perfect size. (Even though 13.3 inch or 14.1 would be better.)
2. In addition to being larger, I need the music to be closer. The music desk on the piano is too far away (almost 20cm / 8 inches back), and slanted too much. (The sheet music "leans backwards" too much, putting the top of an A4 even further away.) This is too far, which I cannot compensate with different glasses. Even though the music could be sharp, it would be too small, even at A3 / A4-landscape size.
3. If I would be using A4 landscape music, I'd be turning pages like crazy. A tablet can be turned with a foot pedal or a tab.
In the past I did use A3 pages, but that only worked because a church organ often has a massive music desk and (after enough practice) I could play pieces by memory. I'll be playing from memory on the piano eventually, but having sheet music I can actually read comfortably speeds up the learning process significantly.