Clip for Piano Music Shelf to keep Music Book open

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When playing music from song books on the piano, often it is annoying that the song book doesn't stay open and closes or scrolls through the pages on its own. The idea of the design is to have a clip which is slided onto the music shelf and which has a finger at its front end. The finger can be turned. In order to minimuze the size of the design, the "plain bearing" (which is intended to have enough friction!) in the design is created by print-in-place. Hence, the thing must be printed with the hinge face down. The music shelf of my piano has a thickness of 8mm. Between the clip and the piano, I use a strip of 1mm foam rubber (Moosgummi). The settings in the files are good for my Anycubic I3 Mega (nozzle diameter = 0.4mm, layer height = 0.2mm). The design works for me, but be aware that a) the design might need adjustments for the music shelf of your piano and the thickness of some foam layer between the clip and the shelf, and b) the clearances and gaps in this Print-In-Place design depend on your printer and slicer. You need 2 clips.