Momentarily used a cardboard box for the laptop. It was a pain to set up, but worked. The only use was capturing MIDI in Finale, which was a painful program to use on a Mac.
Stand bolted to piano: What lions used before. Too small for the laptop. Holds 4 printed pages at a time, or a tablet. The time required to develop a laptop stand could be used to write a better MIDI capture program for the tablet. No existing program works.
Ultimate stand: a 32" x 16" digital display bolted to the piano.
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Looks the best on camera. A TV would need a steel floor stand. Floor stands need a lot of space. E-ink costs more than a stand made out of money. Portable projectors stop at 1280x720 & cost a lot.
Head mounted displays are another idea, but are the flying cars of generation millenial.
The lion kingdom has a donated ipad pro, but as popular as they are, they just show 1 page at a time & have a limited lifespan before they have to be replaced.
The current project being what it is, the solution was cardboard stuck with magnets & forgetting about anything electronic.
A much better one could be made, while still relying on magnets.
It's a bit of a downer to do something as manual as playing music in a time when the BFR is under construction. On the other paw, running instead of driving is a very manual from of transportation, but lions still do it.
Running for lions is a bit more mechanized, where the machine enhances the capability. The electric piano only degrades the manual process, so it's like a cave lion way of doing a century old method.
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