Pub Prop

[allenhopkins]

...Dangle your instrument from a pub table ? What possibly could go wrong ?...

+1 from me. And also, add alcohol consumption to the mix. And a bodhran. And spoons. And the drunk girl who keeps asking for The Unicorn.

[Dave Hanson]

The original Pub Prop wasn't rigid enough to hang a mandolin from, they were ' OK ' to lean a guitar or banjo against, but that was all.

I sold mine to a guitarist about a week after buying it.

Unless the design has improved I wouldn't buy another one.

Dave H

[almeriastrings]

I once saw someone's guitar take a hard (accidental) kick on the top while using one of those things.... to its credit, it did not topple over, but the point of impact was damaged. Mine go in cases. Always.

[Mike Floorstand]

I see these mostly for leaning a guitar or bouzouki on rather than suspending mandos or fiddles. The situation is a pub so a short term thing - you prop it up while playing a second instrument, or leave it briefly unattended while you go to the bar or take a "pressure break". In these situations it is at least a little more secure than just leaning it against the table, chair or wall.

The prop comes with a little bit of rubber you can adhere to the bottom of the instrument so it's not directly on the floor. (I wouldn't stick anything on a high end instrument, though I probably wouldn't take one to the pub either).

I have one but not usually comfortable suspending a mando in one unattended unless the table and room geometry is just right - it makes the instrument less visible and I'm not convinced it could handle a knock from someone's knee or moving a chair.

[Bertram Henze]

Discussing safety with an all all-or-nothing approach will lead nowhere with this.
If you want 100% safety don't take your instrument to the pub, if you don't care about safety at all stand your instrument on your chair, neck against the backrest and go through that door saying "mna" or "fir". The Pub Prop is somewhere inside that spectrum 80/20 style which serves most of the typical situations I find myself in.

[Ray(T)]

Discussing safety with an all all-or-nothing approach will lead nowhere with this.
If you want 100% safety don't take your instrument to the pub, if you don't care about safety at all stand your instrument on your chair, neck against the backrest and go through that door saying "mna" or "fir". The Pub Prop is somewhere inside that spectrum 80/20 style which serves most of the typical situations I find myself in.

Which is why I said leave it in its case or you'll wear out the strings!

[mandroid]

Friends at our Moose lodge session , it being a private fraternal organization,
actually not Pub-lic..
[But musicians are welcome as 'guests'.. 6~8 Wednesday nite is usually slow ..
often, thru the winter, .. we just had the bar-server* as the audience.]

Guitar players, not mandolin , I thought could use them,

in their situation, there, the guitar tail rests on the floor, not hung from the headstock .

U fork keeps it from falling over...

*Kaylee, last song ' good night Kaylee' (vs Irene)..