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means A weighted pole with an adjustable clamp that holds a microphone upright at a performer's mouth-height so hands stay free.
from A straightforward compound: 'microphone' itself comes from Greek mikros (small) plus phone (sound/voice), coined in the 1800s for devices that amplified faint sounds, and later attached to voice-transmission tech. 'Stand' is just old Germanic-rooted English for an upright support. The object followed the word's main invention closely — once microphones needed to stay fixed in place for broadcasting and recording in the early 20th century, someone had to build the thing to hold them up, and the plain descriptive name stuck.
- origin
- Floor stands predate mic clips by decades
- tilt trick
- Boom arms counterweighted to stop faceplanting mics
- iconic use
- Roger Daltrey swung his like a weapon
- cheap villain
- Bad threads strip faster than guitar strings