So I seem to have started a bit of a monster...
I posted in an earlier thread that I was replacing my cheap Donner mandolin with a better quality one; I ended up with a Kentucky KM-276. The original plan had been to take the Donner to Goodwill, but lo and behold, my 6-year-old stepdaughter picked it up and began trying to learn how to play. So, we are now a two-mandolin household...
...plus my husband's student-era classical acoustic guitar, and an octave mandolin I picked up, and (when they're here for visitation) my 10-year-old stepdaughter's violin. Not to mention the sheet music bag and folding music stand that we now have.
Since we do not have a dedicated music room, this means the instruments are starting to take over the living room. I have managed to find a bit of floor space where I could put an 24-30" instrument rack to hold them, but here's the problem...all the racks I find online are for guitars and are likely too short to hold mandolins/violins. I am not handy enough to make one myself.
Anyone have any suggestions for storing multiple instruments, preferably in a combination of hard cases and gig bags?
(With them being "out" in the living room, I don't want to store them without their cases on, which rather negates the idea of hanging things on the wall. The fact that the violin travels quite a bit is also an issue. Plus, my living room also has the exterior front door, so while I have some control of temperature and humidity in there, it's better to have things stored in cases where it can be more closely controlled.)
Thanks in advance!
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