Yup. Opera clamp.
It hangs/mounts to the top pipe on which a drop/cyc is hanging. If the drop/cyc has a bottom pipe, the clamps (spaced evenly along the top pipe) can pickup the bottom pipe allowing the drop to use half the height to get out of sightlines. Very useful in houses with less then adequate grid height. Care must be taken to not gather too much fabric when you clamp the bottom pipe, else the clamp can pinch and tear the drop.
Yup. Opera clamp.
So a piece of hardware to aid in westcoast ing? Or, actually, trip ping a drop?It hangs/mounts to the top pipe on which a drop/cyc is hanging. If the drop/cyc has a bottom pipe, the clamps (spaced evenly along the top pipe) can pickup the bottom pipe allowing the drop to use half the height to get out of sightlines. Very useful in houses with less then adequate grid height. Care must be taken to not gather too much fabric when you clamp the bottom pipe, else the clamp can pinch and tear the drop.
The picture I posted is exactly what you have described. It allowed drops to be hung in a hemp house without a pipe batten on free ends the lift lines, only the clamps at the ends of the ropes. As the batten was indeed a 1x3 sandwich attached to the drop, the drop was rolled up as it flew in and another drop could be attached in seconds, a complete drop to drop "quick change". When shows toured by RR car, long and skinny was the size and type of package used.
I could be wrong but I think the device the OP pictured is the same thing for use in a CW house with pipe battens. They would be installed permanently on the pipe and when a drop was to be hung, 4 hands, 4 minutes and it's up (or down). Steve please correct me if I'm wrong.
Interesting, I wonder if that has anything to do with this new facility:That is correct. The 1.75" round hole suggests 1-1/4" sch 40 pipe, which was used in various theatre applications before 1-1/2" took over.
ST
Interesting, I wonder if that has anything to do with this new facility:
http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/stage-management-facility-operations/28428-new-school.html
Tex, in posts #64 and #67 has a hanging position with 1-1/4" pipe instead of 1-1/2" and mega-claws don't work with it.
I wonder if somewhere along the line a designer picked up an older standard.
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Here's hoping you have deep pockets!
This variant Royal Opera House Collections Online may be easier to self-fabricate.
I hope it's made of titanium or something to fetch that kind of a price.
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