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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 8:02 pm
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| Just added a second-hand Fostex MR-8 digital multi-track (the red one) plus 2GB memory card to my collection. A 50th birthday present from my lovely wife, Karen. http://www.barryrudolph.com/newtoys/toys/graphics/fostexmr8.gif Here is the first recording I made with it: Wurly Boogie Drums are from my... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 7:53 pm
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camelia wrote: unknown early 80s cheap 4-pad drum machine
Sounds like a Mattel Synsonics to me.
Those things are quite sought-after, y'know...
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2011, 12:24 pm
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Nice kit!
I can't play drums - I can program them and even play a bit of percussion, but the drum-kit just eludes me!
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2011, 9:13 am
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| I have an Omnichord http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYIUwlMVS8E I've had it for nearly 30 years and it was state of the art when I got it. It's an instrument for people who can't read music and don't understand what chords are about, etc. Great toy for kids. It's a cross between a Casio home keyboar... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 7:54 pm
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| If I had to choose any four (and get rid of all the others), they would be the ukulele, the Framus archtop acoustic, the electric upright bass and the Nord Electro. I'd probably develop some kind of mutant electric Delta blues style with lots of Wurlitzer piano and acoustic guitar going on... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 6:21 pm
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I have just updated the visual showing moist of my instruments. The Wurlitzer piano and the Roland organ aren't actually mine - they are owned jointly by my band, The Skanx. All instruments are shown approximately to scale.
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 8:22 am
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Jonsi wrote: ...Also a Lucida Guitarrón Mexicano.
Is that the six-string fretless acoustic bass? I'm fascinated with those, but I've never seen one in real life, never mind played one. Oh well - at least I have my electric upright... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 8:18 am
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| A very old violine, which I inherited and which is not in a perfect condition. It sais stradivari, but its probably a fake. Still have to check that. A trumpet (which I dont really use because of the neighbours)... Two bongos. A capoeira instrument from Brazil. A handmade acoustic guitar from Brazi... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2011, 4:14 pm
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| Described earlier, but here you go if you are more visually-minded... http://www.alphabeck.co.uk/music/instruments.jpg I generally prefer blues and greens. Is that odd? What isn't? Ooh! You can now add a Clavia Nord Electro 3 73 to that! It's the keyboard of my dreams; Hammond, Vox and Farfisa orga... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Love playing music - don't go to gigs... |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2011, 3:53 pm
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| My wife tells me that when I listen to music, I'm always analysing it instead of just enjoying the sound - I'll say "I love that bass line!" or "Is that a Mellotron?" all the time. That's just what I hear. It means that even though I have no formal musical training I can analyse and (usually) recons... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The Most "Aspie" Instrument? |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2011, 2:16 am
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| By the way, don't know if anyone has noticed but my avatar is a Wurlitzer electric piano. This is an interesting instrument whose design in an amalgam of various concepts going back to the 1930s. Inventor Benjamin Miessner designed an amplified upright piano which used electrostatic pickups to sense... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The Most "Aspie" Instrument? |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2011, 1:44 am
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| One remarkable thing about many of these instruments is that they often had stops for piano, glockenspiel and percussion instruments. And these sounds weren't somehow simulated by combinations of pipes - they were REAL INSTRUMENTS remotely operated by switches and solenoids! 60 years before MIDI, yo... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The Most "Aspie" Instrument? |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2011, 11:31 am
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| The thing in the top photo is a Moog modular synthesiser. Know what the most Aspie thing about it is? See if you can guess. Is it the hundreds of knobs and switches? The bird's nest of wires and patch cords? The fact that it takes up a complete wall's worth of studio space? The fact that it has no p... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The Most "Aspie" Instrument? |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011, 4:28 am
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| "on a side note; 1/2 my left hand is numb from bad break as a kid (pinky n ring finger) I tried guitar....aint gonna happen" You say that, but Django Reinhardt, one of the greatest guitarists of any genre, spent most of his musical career with only two fully functional fingers on his left hand - hi... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What musical instruments + equipment do you have? |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2011, 2:06 am
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Described earlier, but here you go if you are more visually-minded...
I generally prefer blues and greens. Is that odd? What isn't? |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The Most "Aspie" Instrument? |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 7:19 am
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awes wrote: Why do you think that assburgers has anything to do with music? [...] And I actually don't like the stress of being afraid of making a mistake each second of the song till it's finally through. Who could enjoy that?
Me, as it happens. Touché...  |
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