But the Peak stand is made to hold up (in turn, it holds up relatively heavy music books) and has served me well for several years (just as I was about to condemn the stand, I called the company, they responded immediately by sending out a critical plastic piece that had become warped, and the Peak stand has been problem-free ever since).

They are made from the cheapest, weakest chinese plastic

The pictures show the cheap plastic breaking apart

Plastic part doesn't fit over the metal pole making it impossible to assemble without breaking the plastic!

Cheap plastic.

The locking mechanisms for the height and tilt adjustment are made of cheap plastic and they broke after just a few uses.

Heavy duty nylon collars (not cheap plastic like others

If you do a lot of traveling and don't plan to put one of those 1000-page piano folders on the stand, there's at least one truly lightweight (albeit plastic) stand that's worked out really well for me (perhaps needless to say

After reading many reviews regarding the plastic knobs on the stand, I was surprised to see the knobs were not a weak plastic

The stands arrived yesterday with NO damage to the packaging, but one of them had a cracked plastic headpiece right out of the package!

Most of the stand seems like ice solid steel but the brackets that hold everything together are cheap brittle plastic which makes the rest a complete waste.

Well built, solid stand that can be adjusted for adults as well as for my four year old violinist son.

It permits you to fold up the legs to a position parallel with the shaft as well as to completely remove the upper shelf that holds the music.

I like this very much a when I teach classes I'm able to put two sheets side by side in landscape layout