It does what it鈥檚 meant to do: hold up sheets of music. I just mounted it once, left it open in my music room and haven鈥檛 tried to put a laptop on it, but so far so good. Being used to camera tripods, I can鈥檛 say the material is super sturdy, but it鈥檚 fine for its purpose. I didn鈥檛 get the violin holder as mentioned in the description, but since I don鈥檛 play the violin, I won鈥檛 bother sending it back.