Boston Early Music Festival 2017
I started RecorderStands.com in the spring of 2014. I am a mechanical engineer who loves to tinker in my workshop and develop ideas into fruition. I am a perfectionist by nature and I enjoy the challenge to improve a product and its manufacturing process.
I started making recorder stands by pure chance. My wife plays recorders in different groups and I was never happy to see her placing her expensive wooden recorders on the floor while she practiced and performed. I have looked at other stands in the market, but I didn’t like the way they folded and I thought they were not compact enough for travel. So… I decided to develop one that will provide a beautiful and practical solution.
For a few weeks I worked in my shop, developing an idea for a compact, portable, lightweight stand. I built one for my wife and she began to use it in her Boston Recorder Society meetings and when she played with her ensemble. I never had any intention to make more stands, but when other players saw my wife’s stand, we began getting requests to make more for our music friends. With my wife’s encouragement, I began selling stands on eBay and due to overwhelming interest and increasing demand I soon built my own website.
Thanks to our customers and their requests, I now build seven types of standard stands in four types of wood, and I accommodate requests for custom models. I have sold stands for recorders, baroque and renaissance flutes, Native American flutes, modern flutes and other woodwind instruments. Most of my stands have reached the North American market, but I have also shipped many products abroad to most European countries, to Brazil, Australia, China and more.
I strive to bring to the recorder and woodwind community a unique, high quality stand, to complement the beauty, quality of wood, workmanship, and performance of their instruments.
Jay
I started making recorder stands by pure chance. My wife plays recorders in different groups and I was never happy to see her placing her expensive wooden recorders on the floor while she practiced and performed. I have looked at other stands in the market, but I didn’t like the way they folded and I thought they were not compact enough for travel. So… I decided to develop one that will provide a beautiful and practical solution.
For a few weeks I worked in my shop, developing an idea for a compact, portable, lightweight stand. I built one for my wife and she began to use it in her Boston Recorder Society meetings and when she played with her ensemble. I never had any intention to make more stands, but when other players saw my wife’s stand, we began getting requests to make more for our music friends. With my wife’s encouragement, I began selling stands on eBay and due to overwhelming interest and increasing demand I soon built my own website.
Thanks to our customers and their requests, I now build seven types of standard stands in four types of wood, and I accommodate requests for custom models. I have sold stands for recorders, baroque and renaissance flutes, Native American flutes, modern flutes and other woodwind instruments. Most of my stands have reached the North American market, but I have also shipped many products abroad to most European countries, to Brazil, Australia, China and more.
I strive to bring to the recorder and woodwind community a unique, high quality stand, to complement the beauty, quality of wood, workmanship, and performance of their instruments.
Jay
