Showing posts with label MUSIC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MUSIC. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2012

SOMETHING FOR YOUR VICTROLA EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT ONE

     Where do you go to find carefully transferred-to-digital Edison Blue Amberol cylinders?  Ragtime, jazz, brass bands and way more?

     One of my coworkers pointed out an attractive option: Archeophone Records.  Well worth checking out!

     (I'm still needing to move iTunes from my old computer to my new computer, which is gonna require digging out the spare monitor and keyboard and making them find each other over my home network before even starting.)

Friday, August 21, 2009

1938 SYNTHESIZER

The Hammond Novachord. You've heard them, you just never knew what they were. It's a genuine polyphonic synth, with a bank of oscillators feeding serried ranks of dividers and clever wave-shaping/note-shaping circuitry and every active component is a great big ol' vacuum tube. "Ahead of its time" doesn't even come close.

...Amazing as it is, now consider the kind of dedication and talent it takes to restore one from "found in a garage" to "like new" and then play it!