The FHRED instrument support is a telescoping peg with an attachment for the thumb rest of your instrument on one end and a rubber foot on the other. The telescoping sections of the FHRED allow easy adjustment, extending to the length needed for playing and collapsing to a minimum length for storage and transport. Because the FHRED attaches to thumb rest of your instrument and the base is placed on the seat of your chair, nothing will interfere with the sound production of your instrument. It attaches to the thumb rest, not the instrument. When a FHRED is used for playing in a seated position, it transfers the stresses which cause physical problems to the chair seat not to some other part of your body.
The FHRED Standard model was developed for clarinet and oboe players who do not need the "instant ready" feature of the Pro model. It uses a single telescoping section with a thumb screw lock instead of the mechanical memory in the FHRED Pro model.