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Title: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: yuktsi on Sun, 31 May 2015, 05:57:27: I thought it might be good idea to share how all your keyboards are stored. Especially for those of you who own >>>10 keyboards. :thumb:

So this is the post to share your keyboard storage system.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7285/16125823864_456cee8ee2_c.jpg)
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: baldgye on Sun, 31 May 2015, 06:19:12: That's pretty cool looking, I don't have pictures because my room is a mess, but the one I'm not using I have in its box under my bed
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Hzza on Sun, 31 May 2015, 07:13:04: I have no system...

Well, actually, the stuff on the desk is the stuff I'm working on right now, the stuff on the shelves is stuff I don't want the kids to get hold of and the stuff in the pile in the corner is "misc". I have a load more crap up in a cupboard but that is really messy....
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: snoopy on Sun, 31 May 2015, 07:39:08: I have a couple of shelves on the attic
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: absyrd on Sun, 31 May 2015, 07:39:44: LFRB
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sun, 31 May 2015, 07:44:44: Correctly all but 3 of my keyboards are in large storage boxes in our storage building. I hope to buy/build some shelving soon to out them all on.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: ninjadoc on Sun, 31 May 2015, 08:21:09: The ones I use semiregularly are like this. I'm still trying to figute out how to store the others.

(http://i.imgur.com/9zHiYg1.jpg?1) (http://imgur.com/9zHiYg1)

(http://i.imgur.com/Me5yjot.jpg?1) (http://imgur.com/Me5yjot)
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: joey on Sun, 31 May 2015, 08:28:51: Ninjadoc, you should try tilt them up a bit at the back, so they are more visible!
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Photekq on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:05:45: Yeeeeeeah....

It's actually even messier now since I've got some new things..

(http://i.imgur.com/EfUKFaL.png)
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Hzza on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:06:39: I don't feel anywhere near as bad about mine now :D.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: billnye on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:17:20: Quote from: Photekq on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:05:45
Yeeeeeeah....

It's actually even messier now since I've got some new things..

Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/EfUKFaL.png)

Where's the note? I can't quite see it
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:21:06: Show Image
Quote from: Photekq on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:05:45
Yeeeeeeah....

It's actually even messier now since I've got some new things..

(http://i.imgur.com/EfUKFaL.png) (http://i.imgur.com/EfUKFaL.png)

mine was worse than that before we packed stuff up, actually it was quite embarassing as I was cleaning my storage room out of the old house and realized I had duplicates of quite a few things. :-\

I'm considering buying something like these

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Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Findecanor on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:50:29: Laid on the side in large carboard boxes. Non-detachable cables are wound up and put into empty tissue paper rolls to prevent the plasticisers in them to eat into the keyboard cases.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: sethk_ on Sun, 31 May 2015, 10:03:44: I have mine on a shelf, I will have to take a picture of how it is. I plan on getting boxes made though.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 31 May 2015, 10:52:25: Most of mine are in Cherry boxes, though mostly not the original proper box for that model... all stacked neatly.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: yuktsi on Sun, 31 May 2015, 11:05:37: I was walking in Ikea today, and thought of getting something like ninjadoc. Then I thought, maybe I should look at what you guys did before I decide on something.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Fire Brand on Sun, 31 May 2015, 12:42:08: Quote from: Photekq on Sun, 31 May 2015, 09:05:45
Yeeeeeeah....

It's actually even messier now since I've got some new things..

Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/EfUKFaL.png)

Is that a spare room or is that your bed behind everything O.o
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Photekq on Sun, 31 May 2015, 12:43:01: Quote from: Fire Brand on Sun, 31 May 2015, 12:42:08
Is that a spare room or is that your bed behind everything O.o
That's what used to be my sofa.. :))
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: demik on Sun, 31 May 2015, 12:52:41: On my desk. And my numpad in a drawer in my closet.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Joey Quinn on Sun, 31 May 2015, 13:10:19: On/ around my desk/ dresser/ room.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: mason on Sun, 31 May 2015, 13:15:26: On a shelf in my closet
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: njbair on Mon, 01 June 2015, 20:44:22: I found this thing unused in another part of the building where I work. I've got no idea what it's supposed to be used for but it's really good at holding some keyboards. Sorry for the mess.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Altis on Thu, 04 June 2015, 20:32:09: I've been thinking of making something that looks like a magazine rack, or better yet a snowboard rack, so that I can stack them up efficiently and have them angled so I can see them.

I think it'd make it much easier to cycle through them more frequently to have them organized and quickly readily available.

I don't have any photos, but at my last place I had two fairly long and really shallow shelves on the wall over my desk (one above the other). They had a small lip on them to keep the boards in place. I had 3 keyboards on each, side by side. Looked really good, but the cables were a little difficult to deal with.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 04 June 2015, 20:44:46: Here's mine.

(http://i.imgur.com/fSxyHSB.jpg)

I try to prop them up at the back, and I'm going to have to sell some to make room for some more ^_^
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Jokrik on Sun, 07 June 2015, 23:19:17: This is how I keep mine from dust, space efficient tips : try to store keyboards vertically where possible

(http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh495/jokrik89/IMAG1333_zpsx87ymdtg.jpg~original) (http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/jokrik89/media/IMAG1333_zpsx87ymdtg.jpg.html)
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: strafe on Mon, 08 June 2015, 07:02:14: (http://i.imgur.com/1KBTxFy.jpg)

Keyboards in boxes, keycaps in plastic cases.
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: Pete on Wed, 02 August 2017, 22:40:37: I put my collection of miscellaneous keyboards in some drawers recently:

(http://i.imgur.com/g2UgGvi.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/YSke2ip.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/Md2GqP2.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/OCPFhZi.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/nqaZGfh.jpg)
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: rioc on Fri, 04 August 2017, 07:22:06: most of them in their original packing / carton and then stored within this kind of boxes:
(http://www.aluventos.ch/index_htm_files/54804.jpg)

then the keyboards I have in regular rotation mostly in sleeves stored on a shelf of an ikea furniture.

and the 60%-65% boards that fit right in the ikea furniture like this:
(http://i.imgur.com/edKOFAS.jpg)
http://imgur.com/a/bI9JR
Title: Re: How do you keep all your keyboards
Post by: PerniciousPony on Sat, 23 September 2017, 01:58:32: (https://i.imgur.com/pQuvJho.jpg)