[CAUT] Artist Bench

[Fred Sturm]

On Oct 13, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Fred Sturm wrote:

> The Italian bench reminds me of one designed by the father of a  
> piano student here - and I assume he never managed to do anything  
> with it since it has been several years now. This one is adjustable  
> manually, via the "plungers" (spring loaded) on the sides, which  
> have a pin that inserts into one of the holes in the legs. It  
> actually works quite fast and efficiently for adjustment, just pull  
> out and raise or lower, then let go as the pins go into their holes.  
> The range is enormous (can be made lower by adding more holes, or  
> higher using a longer "leg"). He just fabricated it from stock  
> aluminum.


	I should mention that the impetus for the design was that our piano  
prof (and the student as well) liked to sit extra low. This was  
designed to be very portable: remove the legs (very fast: just pull  
out the plungers and lift), and the whole thing will fit in a  
suitcase. So you always have that extra low bench available on tour.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu