Pack-seat alternative

Tommy Boswell · From: Virginia, USA

What's your favorite alternative to a pack-seat? I'd like to find a light-weight but sturdy folding stool or such, adjustable height, etc.

Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

Some use a drum throne in a duffel bag, since you now need one for all the stuff that used to live in your seat
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Roger Kelly · From: Bristol,Tennessee

Tommy, here is but one place that has what you may be looking for....I use a keyboard seat...light and adjustable and don't cost an arm or leg.
Hope this helps.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/search?sB=r&Ntt=piano+bench

Ken Metcalf · From: San Antonio Texas USA

Note the cheaper folding seat has cheaper foam and I think it is worth the extra $$ for stiffer / better foam.
You can get this case at harbor fright or home depot for 20-25 bucks.
Plus it has adjustable height

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Steve Perry · From: Elizabethtown Ky, USA

This is what I use...

http://www.target.com/p/re-lex-adjustable-bar-stool/-/A-14684699#prodSlot=medium_1_7

Around $45 from Target

Scott Duckworth · From: Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies

Well, here's mine...

The "seat" is an old boat seat (for free), the "box" is some scrap wood I had, the legs (removable) are 2" dia poplar dowel.

It holds (when fully packed) two volume pedals, box of picks, bars, and tools, box of strings and tuners, cables, and the legs.
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Jack Aldrich · From: Washington, USA

Like Lane, I use a drum stool. Folded up, it fits into the small suitcase I use for an effects bag. I first used one when I forgot my stool when I was in the bar band (the New Radio Cowboys) at the Stevenson Bluegrass Festival. The drummer for the swing band that followed us loaned me her drum stool, and I was hooked. - Jack
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Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

Correction: I said "Some use a drum throne." I use a Steeler's Choice, with sidekick.
I find it handier.
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Matt Chase · From: Queensland, Australia

I bought a Quake Stag hunting stool with a back rest. It's strong, height adjustable and portable. It is much more comfortable than my backless drum throne I had before,

Scott Duckworth · From: Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies

Matt, what is the height range on the Stag stool?
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Matt Chase · From: Queensland, Australia

Scott,
I have it set at about 22" and it can go about 3" either way from there.

Scott Duckworth · From: Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies

Not bad!
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Glenn Uhler · From: Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Like the Duck, I'm building my own seat. To make it easier to carry, it's in two parts like the split guitar cases. One part is the base and the other part is the storage box - both are the same size. The "airplane" part is that both pieces are made to fit under an airplane seat. You can put the base in the overhead compartment and the storage box (with your expensive pedals inside) down by your feet, where you can keep an eye on them.

I'm trying to figure out a way to put casters on one of the boxes so you can just pull it through the airport like a suitcase. Maybe even put you guitar case on top!
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Jimmy Gibson · From: Cornwall, England

This is what I use great alternative at a third of the price.

Jimmy.
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Scott Duckworth · From: Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies

Jimmy, where did you get it or who makes it?
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Jimmy Gibson · From: Cornwall, England

Hi Scott,
I got this seat off EBay and it`s a great bit of kit has plenty of storage space for all the items that we carry ,AND it`s a lot lighter than the custom made seats.

It`s made by Koala fishing seats ect.

Jimmy.

Joe Naylor · From: Avondale, Arizona, USA

I have had at least 4 or 5 orders lately from people that have ordered due to drum thrones falling over - one was just missed by the PA speaker he hit on the way down - it just missed his steel.

I have also gotten several orders from people that can not get those cross brace piano benches the correct height. The adjustment is too much difference in height.

I have a couple photos of both the above being thrown in a dumpster after they bought a steelseat. Both were a surprise and from different parts of the country and about a year apart.

I am just reporting what I hear from customers. I am now selling them to other musicians like drummers, keyboard players, guitar and bass players, etc.

Just a note - not trying to start anything just reporting what I have heard.

Joe Naylor
www.steelseat.com
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Dave O'Brien · From: Florida and New Jersey

I gigged on of these for years...carried my extra strings & wires in an old brief case. I use them still in the house.

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Bobby Hearn · From: Henrietta, Tx

Here's what I use....

Scott Duckworth · From: Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies

Bobby,
I bet the reverb is great in your "studio"... Laughing

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Jimmy Gibson · From: Cornwall, England

Bobby, that's a great seat for the bum notes Laughing

I could do with one of those because I`m a cr@#py player Very Happy

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Jimmy.

John Sluszny · From: Brussels, Belgium

Micky Byrne · From: United Kingdom (deceased)

Bobby, that seat will come in handy if you do a gig and one of the "greats" walk in...Emmons, Jernigan, Franklin, White etc and you'll need more than 2 rolls of paper .... Laughing

Micky "Scars" Byrne U.K.

Dana Blodgett · From: California, USA

I use a Tama drum throne-light,portable and cheap!
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Paddy Long · From: Christchurch, New Zealand

I use a Steelers Choice side kick too, but on a few fly gigs I have borrowed drum stools to save me trying to fly my seat.... drum seats are bloody awful :-} !!
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