UD, I certainly understand & appreciate your concern. One thing I never risk is leaving my keyboard setup unattended in an exposed public area, especially a bar venue, where customers could have easy access to it. Not only does this lead to the problem you described, but other risks include: customers spilling drinks (or food) on/in it, falling over onto it , playing it , or worse yet, knocking it over , no matter what X,Y, or Z stand it's sitting on. For gigs involving breaks, I insist that there be a specific stage area (or platform riser) provided to which patrons (audience) are not given access/approach. For casual parties & gatherings of friends & family, I'll probably continue to using my funky 'ironing board' style X stand, but for special event performance, the Apex is my stand of choice now. I think I got more keyboard stands than keyboards now. - Scott