Sunday, September 6, 2026

A 1923 Gibson F-5 Lloyd Loar at Elderly 💫

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  We've got a 1923 Gibson F-5 Lloyd Loar Master Model Mandolin! https://www.elderly.com/products/gibson-f-5-90u-224384?variant=460730416...

Ivory heel-cap 💫

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  A closer-view at the new ivory heel-cap on my ‘07 Martin OM-42 💫 My 2007 OM-42 with new genuine pre-ban elephant ivory heel-cap from some...

Martin “Arts and Crafts” limited edition 💫

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  A beauty! Look at this spruce top “silk” and these Frank Lloyd Wright inspired fingerboard 🥇

Steve Hoffman’s (ex) secret studio weapon 💫

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  Thanks to Steve Hoffman for the following 🙏🖖🥇💫🙏 “I was asked again about what projects I used the Teletronix LA-2a compressor on in d...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

Mekong Shellac 💫

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  SHARE THE NEWS! NEW RELEASE!!! https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/music  MEKONG SHELLAC: Cambodian Artifacts from the 78-rpm era SF1...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Tsundoku is valid for Books or Records… it’s foolish etc.

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  I always applaud at Umberto Eco’s wisdom and I feel to be appropriate for records collections, as well. “It's foolish to think you hav...

Music to soothe, please and heal 💫

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  This ECM disk from 2011 was suggested by Stefano Amerio - the sound engineer extraordinaire who recorded this and hundreds more ECMs’ - wh...
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Les Espaces Électroacoustiques I, II & III

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  These three double disks, actually six SACDs’, box-sets made in Austria by Col Legno label are a compendium of concrete and avantagarde el...

The Pooing Dog 🫣

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  “Cane che lascia” (or popularly known as “Il cane che caca” - The Pooing Dog), created around 1880 by the Italian artist Adriano Cecioni (...
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Abdullah Ibrahim aka Dollar Brand 💫

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  I’ll be grateful forever to the renditions/transcriptions for acoustic guitar of Duck Baker of “Tintiyana” by Dollar Brand which made me -...

The Habibiyya (1972)

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  Sufi musical brotherhood that includes three-fifths of the disbanded Mighty Baby!  Confortable with ethnic influences, the only album of H...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Swordfishtrombones 💫

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  Swordfishtrombones - the eighth studio album by Tom Waits was released on September 1, 1983 on Island Records. It was the first album that...

ReVox A77 Professional 🥇

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  The company Live Recording in Gothenburg (Sweden) rebuilt Revox A77s for professional use. Fantastic machines. A lot of extremely well sou...

Koh-i-noor 😉

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Monday, August 31, 2026

Vitruvius 💫

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  In the 1st century BC, Vitruvius described a hidden acoustic system in theaters, visible to all: large vases placed between the tiers of s...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

John Renbourn’s first record 💫

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  This is JR’s first eponymous record on Transatlantic’s safety-copy master-tape from 1965. Notice the “Renbourne” typo, a sort of  old Angl...
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When silence is gold…

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  Talking about something extraordinarily pleasant that just happened seems annoying and redundant to me, useless. The silence and the conte...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Les Paul’s home & studio demolished 🤯

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  Les Paul’s Historic Home and Studio Has Been Demolished — and His Son Wants Answers The New Jersey property where guitar and recording pio...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

RIP for Dolly Parton 🌸

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  Sad news, indeed.  She was so full of life to seem she was immortal.  My condolences go to his family and close friends. 💫

The Roy Rogers Martin OM-45 💫

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  The original Roy Rogers’ Martin OM-45 is an iconic instrument, indeed and an important piece of Americana, too! The recent Martin’s replic...