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Work in progress
Will be singing tomorrow...Love this humble Lenco... no frills quality: with the Cocobolo Siggwan's it will be gorgeous.
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Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (with a Frank Zappa's related quote)
What?Just read the here below text, folks...The most famous riff song in rock history is just the chronicle of a Swiss' mishap...We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records...
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Salvatore Accardo's Stradivari
... well: I'm speechless... a violin is a violin is a violin, but... a Stradivari in Salvatore Accardo's hands is so vastly much more than a violin!I today listened to a Rossini and Bottesini disc on...
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Ralph Towner's 12 strings weird tunings
Sharing, sharing, sharing...... as I got from a former guitar player, I enjoyed over the years... now it's my chance to share with other hungry and passionate Ralph's scholars, as I am.So, enjoy!
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David Munrow
... as he is a personal fave of mine, I could write and write and write about him...... but, being someway sadly lazy, I will not!I'll choose instead another way to show his amazing skills... you'll...
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Ralph Towner
RALPH TOWNER (1940) came to the jazz and contemporary music worlds in the late 1960s, developing his unique virtuosic style alongside other emerging musical artists such as John McLaughlin, Dave...
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Takatsuki TA-300B - the ultimate 300B triode?
Wonderful tube and manufacturer from Kyoto... I will visit their workshop on next May...Stay tuned.
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Norman Blake - an interview
An iconic musician, a personal fave of mine and a true original...Enjoy the interesting interview as I did... thanking Eric Schoenberg for suggesting.
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Posthumous Grammy Award to Alan Blumlein
The British inventor of stereo sound recording and many early broadcasting breakthroughs is being honoured with a posthumous Grammy award.Well deserved!
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Deep Purple live in Europe & Japan on master-dub reel to reel!
Great add to my reel to reel collection...Rockin' with my pal Arnaldo, yesterday afternoon.
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First Japan Triode Meeting - May 2017- The List
Here is a (almost) complete list of partecipants to 1st JTM in Fukuoka, on next May... so many friends I'll be super-happy to meet and gather with!José Amengual FranceTanawat AtichatThaïlandStefano...
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What type of records collector are you?
Thanking Joe Long for the following short, entertaining essay...You don’t need me to tell you that vinyl is back. It’s everywhere. From Wal Mart to tax commercials and everywhere between. Everyone that...
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Silbatone's collection...
... as per Jean Hiraga's pixies, as published in VuMeter magazine...Thanking Jean Veys and LencoHeaven's brothers.
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Analog machism
... when long isn't enough... never!Arm is 1,5 m... 150 cm... 1,500 mm... with a cool Fairchild turntable.
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Elbphilarmonie concert hall in Hamburg
The newly opened Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany is a visually stunning structure from a design perspective, with its gorgeous wave-shaped facade, curved elevators, and its seemingly...
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Lokum G-88 and Siggwan 12" with Signet 7LCa
Done... after the work-in-progress, I just made it;-)Sure I'm very, v e r y slow with my own business... yet, nonetheless, I finished the Goldring G-88 idler-wheel turntable with James Grant's Siggwan...
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Voices from the past
There is something which most amazes me when listening to music: its ability to bring me to another era, place, mood so easily!Its interactions with memory - both personal and DNA-related - appears as...
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Marantz 7C is back...
Having some fine pieces of gears handy can be fun... giving a chance from time to time to a seldom heard in months preamp which served me loyally and flawlessly for many, many years has a one-of-a-kind...
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Site of the Day - Riffstation, thanking Drone by Piers Faccini
... Piers is a personal fave of mine... and this site with play-it-along chording and parallel YouTube's video of his nice "Drone" is a cool, useful tool...Enjoy!
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