This is Stefano Bertoncello's Blog (ステファノ・ベルトンチェッロ - トゥーグッドイアーズ − ブロガー、オーディオ＆ミュージック・コンサルタント) devoted to pacific topics like Music - live and reproduced - i.e. discs, audio, guitars - both vintage and new, concerts, workshops, and related stuffs. Furthermore: travelling - as a mind-game and real globetrotting, and books, movies, photography... sharing all the above et al. and related links... and to anything makes Life better and Earth a better place to stay, enjoying Life, in Peace.
Handling this 75 kilos beast isn’t for all… yet, I look forward having it singing, soon 🍀
Johnny Cash's Wilkanowski & Son's Guitar…. sold at the Johnny Cash estate auction by Sotheby's in 2004.
William Wilkanowski (born 1886) was a Polish-American violin-maker.
Wilkanowski was born in Poland in 1886. By the age of 17 he was a trained violin maker. After going to the United States, he worked in the shops of Ditson (Boston) and Fred Gretsch (New York City).
He was listed as a violin maker in Brooklyn by 1933, although at least one violin made in Brooklyn dates to 1924. From 1937 to 1941, he worked in both an era and a location renowned for the jazz guitar. Gretsch offered Wilkanowski's work in a 1940 flyer with the text "his own personal work…no other hand touches them." His violins were offered from $50–150.
Wilkanowski is thought to have produced 5,000 violins and 100 violas by 1942. Some of the higher quality violins were marked with a W inlay; these instruments are thought to be entirely of his own making, while many of the others were made in the shops with assistants. The Gretsch Company released the Synchromatic line during the early '40s also, which were also archtop guitars, but shared no other similarities with Wilkanowski guitars. His role in the Synchromatic is not known.
Although known for his violins, Wilkanowski also produced a limited number of archtop guitars. By 1942 he had sold 30 of these instruments, each unique in appointments and features, at $400 each. This price was in line with what was being charged for a D’Angelico New Yorker, or a Gibson Guitar Corporation Super 400. There is no evidence of instruments made by Wilkanowski after 1943.
Most of the Wilkanowski guitars adhere to a standard shape. A few guitars do not adhere to the cello shape, but rather a more conventional archtop shape, without the cello-like points above the waist. The Wilkanowski headstock is thought to have been the main influence in the headstock for the current Ovation Guitar. The flattened oval was the standard shape on most guitars, although some featured a violin like scroll. The backs of most were one piece of flamed maple (actually, the wood is often Po Valley Poplar, a figured cello tonewood that can resemble maple.)[ with no center joint.
The finishing techniques included very light stain, or a violin color finish, and light sealer. The multiple layer binding was wooden, something fairly innovative at the time, and was raised above the level of the top and back plates. The f holes varied by instrument, standard shape, segmented, and later more modern cutouts appeared. Some of the Instruments displayed the name AIRWAY, some had a W on the headstock, and some remained unbranded. Some of the guitars carry serial numbers, a signature, or a label. Several are labeled Wilkanowski and Son, although nothing is known of the son's responsibility.
One bearing this label was sold at the Johnny Cash estate auction by Sotheby's in 2004.
Always thankful to Robert Crumb 💫💎💫
Illustration by Derek Bacon 💫
A - singin’-along your fave songs ✅
A sort-of private karaoke… something - I noticed - I only do when an astral coincidence happens: right mood, decent health, no technical issues whatsoever… and music is perceived at a 2.0 level of satisfaction, sweet like a nectar.
I missed “this” nectar for 12 long months… I knew and my pain was my pain was sincere and palpable: I felt like I was living a movie without a soundtrack, like I was constantly wearing glasses with gray lenses and, I swear: today a lazy, feint, bashful tear moistened my eyes ☺️
Satori 💫
Thanks to Michael Franks’ “Passion Fruit” 💎
I’m in the lengthy process of awakening my gears after an years-long storage…
A bit of apprehension and the behemoths - the mighty Studer C37, the MCI JH110B and the Telefunken M15A - were carefully checked and turned ON.
My wife impeccable good taste for composition 💫
The emotion - Yes, emotion! - I felt when the machines began spinning, again… the smell of rubber and warming-up electronics with a bit of motor-oil scent, well: I truly felt blessed and experienced a stooopid, pleasant sense of inexplicable unreasonable happiness ☺️
These music-machines owns a soul
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Tango - A rare Bauhaus poster by Ernesto Garcia Cabral. Mexico, 1920's
Com imenso pesar, comunicamos o falecimento de Sebastião Salgado, nosso fundador, mestre e eterno inspirador.
Sebastião foi muito mais do que um dos maiores fotógrafos de nosso tempo. Ao lado de sua companheira de vida, Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, semeou esperança onde havia devastação e fez florescer a ideia de que a restauração ambiental é também um gesto profundo de amor pela humanidade. Sua lente revelou o mundo e suas contradições; sua vida, o poder da ação transformadora.
Neste momento de luto, expressamos nossa solidariedade a Lélia, a seus filhos Juliano e Rodrigo, seus netos Flávio e Nara, e a todos os familiares e amigos que compartilham conosco a dor dessa perda imensa.
Seguiremos honrando seu legado, cultivando a terra, a justiça e a beleza que ele tanto acreditou ser possível restaurar.
Nosso eterno Tião, presente!
Hoje e sempre.
Instituto Terra
Costumes and sculptures by Constantin Brancusi
Telepathic Amplifiers of the 1920s, Paris.
A little-known topic in the field of paranormal research is the fairly constant overlay between art and psychic attempts, particularly in the avant-garde 1920s.
Constantin Brancusi's work in design is thought of by moderns as mere art. However, his special helmets were designed to amplify telepathic transmissions, as we see in these fascinating photographs.
Subjects with low-level telepathic abilities could, with this telepathic helmet, project thoughts into the stratosphere where they could bounce about and then, using the Earth's spin, travel Westwards. Alternately, the forward-and-rearward cone could use the Earth's magnetic field as a transmission layer. Successful application of these telepathic amplifiers sent a thought accurately as far away as India.
Toyah Wilcox and Robert Fripp on their 39th marriage anniversary, in France 💫💎💫
This famous and exquisite painting, "The Cellist," was painted in 1894 by the renowned French artist Paul Gauguin. The subject of the painting is Swedish cellist Fritz Schneklud, a professional musician who was a friend of Gauguin's.
It is displayed at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm.
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