Binding the binder

Poster board, duct tape, webbing straps, elastic, thread, and command strips. These are the supplies that went into a new music holder on the side of my youngest’s coronet case. The previous pouch secured with command strips was fine for a music book and a couple loose sheets, but couldn’t hold up to the pressure of a binder. The poor binder hung out in the backpack, lost and forlorn during band practice. To reunite music and instrument, I built a new pouch on the side of the case out of odds and ends from around the house. The bottom of the poster board folder is secured with a strip of pink webbing, looped around the lid, sewn together at the ends, then duct taped inside the folder. The top utilizes wide elastic so it has some give and grip, also sewn together, then duct taped to the outside of the poster board. A couple more pieces of duct tape make guards to keep the binder from sliding sideways, and the command strips now have a minimal job of keeping the whole unit from sagging down the case an inch. The previous command strips removed easily from the case, and they way the new holder is constructed should leave no damage to the case when removed.

Binder holder added to the side of a coronet case