Unless you are blessed with perfect pitch, at some point you will need to consider how to accurately tune your instrument. Of course, if you’re a pianist, you just get someone who has been trained to do it for you. Not cheap, but easy! So, there are choices to be made, and there is plenty out there…

Your standard foldable music stand will almost certainly have been your introduction to the world of music stands. Orchestral and conductor stands are the next stage. These tend to be more robust in construction, have a non-folding desk, and are specifically designed for use by players in an orchest…

Whether we like it or not, the double bass will be for ever linked with the large, lumbering and lugubrious elephant – much as the cello is with the elegant swan, or the tuba with Tubby!                   …

You may have thought from our review of the K&M 101 music stand that it was the be all and end all. Music stand nirvana! Well, it’s a very, very good stand. I loved it because I knew I could rely on it. But there some more options to it than that, and choices to be had. If you’ve read any of our…