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Agree! That's all I was trying to say but just got a little more passionate about in my post

If I ever date a girl who can sew, I may ask her to cut the dust cover to fit for me.

If I ever date a girl who can sew, I may ask her to cut the dust cover to fit for me. Alas, that seems to be a lost art these days.

If anybody uses music stands like I do, stacking one book on top of the other until it is all unmanageable, some feeble clips on the back would actually be useless. I agree it seems wrong for Roland not to include them, although I still bought the thing because I just loved it. But when I picked up a substantial, height adjustable, with music clips stand for £12.99 and simply stood it behind the piano and adjusted height and angle to my liking, I did come round to it a bit. If the music is at the height of the piano it needs considerable angling back to read. V Piano is great, just stick the music on top, like I did with my old RD 300s. But a V Piano is very expensive compared to an RD 700 and music rest. Having seen the rests on other pianos, I still believe a separate stand is the best option for a slab.

Now, I will say there is only one thing I don't like about the nord music rest. You can't fit the freakin' dust cover over the instrument with the music rest attached. So I have to remove the music rest every time I want to put it on.

I personally don't think that Roland should go down the attachable stand route, as it's likely to either be inexpensive and inadequate, or too expensive (like the Nord), putting buyers off.

This is a sort of religious issue, apparently. Fine. I'm sure that Jay (along with every other product manager in recorded history) is quite accustomed to hearing different customers assert "X" and "not-X" with equal conviction. Hence, my suggestion that offering a music rest in the form of a standardized, extra-cost accessory would be a profitable way to address the issue.

These arguments don't hold if it's an accessory you buy separately, unless you mean that all music stands on DPs are either "inexpensive and inadequate, or too expensive"...(so no DP should have one...)

This is a sort of religious issue, apparently. Fine. I'm sure that Jay (along with every other product manager in recorded history) is quite accustomed to hearing different customers assert "X" and "not-X" with equal conviction. Hence, my suggestion that offering a music rest in the form of a standardized, extra-cost accessory would be a profitable way to address the issue.

Stealing part of that for my signature line. Ok?

Digitalguy, the opinion I express is only a personal one, and I may well be in the minority.

Experience has told me that only music rests that are diagonally braced, like on most home DP's, or mounted from the centre, like a free-standing one, are able to support a decent amount of music required for a show or gig (and a light if needed).

If Roland offer a music rest option, it won't be diagonally braced, and likely to be either;

-- A 'cost-concious' one, which is wire framed, and can barely support a thin music book, or

-- A more substantial one like the Nord, which I'm sure is still prone to 'wobble', and with the +$100 price tag quoted elsewhere in this thread, the money would be better spent on a quality free standing music stand, or as I have done, a keyboard stand with 2nd tier arms that provide the music rest.

Does anyone honestly have an 'attachable' music rest that is stable with a large score on it, and can annotate onto it?

Likewise, I can't understand why users spend +$2,000 on a 'flagship' stage piano, and then put it on a wobbly 'X' stand, which has no leg room if sitting down.

Many of us have learnt on a 'real piano' where unstable keyboards or music rests don't exist, surely with a stage piano we want to replicate this!