Throughout its early life RATstands resisted the temptation to design and manufacture chairs. During those years of selling music stands to world renowned orchestras and venues, we learnt from our customers that every musician has a different idea of what a chair should be like. Unlike music stands, orchestras tended to buy several different chair designs to satisfy all of their musician’s disparate wishes. This knowledge drove our development of the Opera Chair, which is specifically designed for musician’s posture and has adjustment for height, back angle, and seat angle, to suit every musician’s needs. The Concert Chair builds on the success of the Opera Chair but is designed to complement the Concert Stand with a single piece wooden shell which can be made to match any venue.  

 It could be said that RATstands offers several products which are ‘before their time’. We take pride in that everything we have designed has been driven by our customers. RATstands Grand Opera Conductor Stand was designed with the Royal Opera House’s request for a ‘unlike any other’ conductor’s stand. The Utah Symphony inspired RATstands to design our Grand Opera Chair in response to their search for a chair which can be adjusted whilst the musician was sitting on it.  

Not only are RATstands products developed from what our customers want, they also show them what they need.  Learn More