Telescopic pole VERY difficult to extend at first, but it does extend

I was almost ready to send this stand back during assembly when step 3 said "Extend the telescopic pole to the desired height." The silver telescopic pole would not budge no matter how hard I tried to pull it up, so I thought it was defective. However, I thought I'd have my husband try it before completely giving up. He couldn't budge it at first either, but then he stepped on the base with both feet while pulling up on the silver telescopic pole with one of those rubbery gripper things for opening jars. Finally he was able to pull it up. It moves up and down a bit more easily now, but is still extremely tight. (I know you don't want it too loose so it will stay where you put it, but it's tighter than on other similar music stands I used to use when I played in my high school band.) I think that either the pole should not be made so tight, or else the instructions should warn you that you may have to use extreme measures to get it to extend, so that you won't think it's immovable and defective. There is also an error on the first page of the instructions where the parts are identified -- oddly, they identify the picture of the base as the "connector", the picture of the telescopic pole as the "base", and the picture of the connector as the "telescopic pole". Somebody should have proofread the instructions! Once we got the stand assembled, I'm happy with it because I will be using it at a certain height and won't be moving it up and down very often.

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