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Author: jeig
Date: 2025-01-28 17:26
Does anyone have experience 3d printing collapsable clarinet pegs/stands? Is there a good model available online for free or for a fee?
Please only comment if you have first hand experience with models that work and are durable enough for actual use.
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Author: karusel
Date: 2025-02-02 16:24
I understand what you're asking and I hate to be the typical forum user that answers a question while not actually answering the question but here's my, sort of, experience with it.
I like 3D printing, I prefer designing models to downloading them and I thought of making a collapsable stand. After reviewing what's already available on sites like thingiverse, I have concluded this is not worth the effort.
Making it collapsable inevitably means it will be made of multiple parts, which have to keep clarinet resting on the stand very secure. I could not see that a printed stand could be an equivalent to the store bought one. Taken into consideration, that a clarinet you own costs upwards of $1000, if the risk of it falling because of a flimsy stand is increased just by 1% it's already not worth it. So I bough the stand, it's built like a tank, gives total confidence and can be folded into the bell and kept in the clarinet case. I saw no added value of designing or even just printing the thing myself and I advise you to just buy the stand.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-02-02 19:50
While the cone/peg part may be sound, I doubt the legs will hold up too well. Even moulded plastic legs are flimsy due to the stresses left in them from the injection moulding process and that's also true with zinc castings.
Personally I do not recommend any stands/pegs that support the instrument from within the bell as that exerts outward pressure on the bell which will cause the bells to crack if they're ringless bells, so always opt for a peg/stand that has the cone that's a loose fit within the bell and is fashioned to prevent the instruments falling over and the bells themselves are set down onto a flat (and cushioned) base to support the entire bell flare.
That's why I never recommend those Hercules clarinet stands where all the weight of the instrument is on the inside of the bell (and the least said about Hercules bass clarinet stands, the better).
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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