Tablet Stand for Kirtan

These days iPads and other tablets are commonly used to display shabads during kirtan. Some places a monitor is used so that the kirtani  can see the shabad. Tablets screens can be hard to see at an angle and sometimes they are an awkward size to put on a vaja. If the device is placed higher and at more of an angle, the rest of the sangat on stage can see the shabad as well. For these reasons I was requested to help make a stand that could securely hold a tablet at an angle and high enough so that it would be visible. Fortunately I was given a monitor stand to use as a base, since building a complete stand from scratch is difficult. I was also given some cut up pieces of wood. I used wood glue and really small nails to put the pieces  of wood together to form a platform with edges so nothing would slide off. Then I painted the back silver and added a soft black felt to the front so the devices wouldn’t get scratched or slide around.  I added a small piece in the front so the tablet would not fall forward and finally mounted the whole thing onto the monitor stand.

The actual construction of it:

Here is the finished product:


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