Thursday, February 13, 2025

Possibly the first six strings guitar

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Len’s

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  Very proud 💫 💎
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

One of the rarest 💫

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  The legendary Gioconda de Vito's original UK HMV ASD 429, here in its rarest test pressing, Theoretically one of the most rare violin ...

… and now for something different: Luigi Russolo’s IntonaRumori 💫

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  In 1916, Luigi Russolo (1885-1947), a painter and musician, published “L’arte dei rumore.” (The Art of Noise) Russolo believes that noise ...

Do you leave, Corto Maltese? Yes! 💫

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  “ Oh go quickly over the dark lands And cross the sea That seas and lands may not part us, My love and me. “ James Joyce
Monday, February 10, 2025

What a sucker!

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  Thanking Robert Crumb (he knows how to behave 😉)

RIP Rutherford Chang, who collected more than 3,400 copies of the Beatles White Album 💫

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  RIP Rutherford Chang, who collected more than 3,400 copies of the Beatles White Album.  In a fascinating obituary, the New York Times repo...

Prog at its best 💫

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  The Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening 1971 Vertigo 6360 024 (UK) The second Keith Tippett Group album ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Neumann CF-3 & Studer 961 💫

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  I’ll be able to advise musicians when the tape is rolling and microphones are ON… without having to wave my hands  😳😄😄😉☺️😄

Long Boxes 💫

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  Thanking Susan Whittle and Will Ackerman 💫
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Jim O’Rourke in Padua 💫

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  An intense, dreamy evening, indeed.
Friday, February 7, 2025

Bob’s first 💎💫💎

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  Bob Dylan's Promo 1st LP.  There are many variations. The front cover photo was reversed. He's actually holding a left-handed guit...

Robert Zimmerman 💫

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  A photo of young Bob Dylan sent to his high school sweetheart, Barbara Ann Hewitt, between 1958 and 1959.
Thursday, February 6, 2025

The Grandest Piano

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  A curious 15 year old ended up creating the longest grand piano in the world after asking a simple question.  Inside a piano, the bass str...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

R.I.P. for Mike Ratledge 💫

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  John Etheridge has let it be known that Soft Machine co-founder Mike Ratledge has passed away today. He had such a distinctive and inventi...
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Loudspeakers efficiency vs. W needed 💫

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Sunday, February 2, 2025

“Nice guitar, too bad you’re a communist”

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  Joan Baez’s 1880 Martin guitar… a luthier wrote in reversed hand-written pencil the above mentioned message.

Tools of the trade - Don McLean’s Martin 000-28 (1929)

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  Don McLean and the 1929 000-28. On all of his early 70's albums and for his live work, Don McLean played a 1929 000-28. It remains one...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Monk 💫

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  Thelonious Monk by Martel Chapman 💫
Friday, January 31, 2025

RIP for Lady Marianne Faithfull 💔

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