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Retro Synth Ads: December 2013
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013. Synthony Music's "Have a synthsational holiday! Santa will)" ad, Keyboard 1983. Synthony Music's "Have a synthsational holiday! Santa will)" quarter page black and white advertisement from page 20 in the December 1983 issue of Keyboard Magazine. Taking a break from the rum and eggnog to bring you this piece of lovely history. You know how much I love hand drawn artwork in my retro synthesizer advertisements! And this one pretty much sums up this holiday season! Army Brat Bio...
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Retro Synth Ads: October 2014
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Sunday, October 12, 2014. Moog Modular System I, II and III "Setting Up Your Moog Synthesizer" installation and operation guide, 1970. Moog Modular System I, II and III "Setting Up Your Moog Synthesizer - A Guide to Installation and Operation of Synthesizers I, II and II" 16-page installation and operations manual, 1970. Also available as PDF. If you are really in "the moog" for more Moogy goodness, check out a few other juicy Moog Modular pieces from the blog, including System 15, 35 and 55 multi-page b...
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Retro Synth Ads: May 2014
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Monday, May 26, 2014. Linn Electronics Inc. LinnSequencer "Imagine the possibilities." ad, Keyboard 1985. Linn Electronics LinnSequencer "Imagine the possibilities" colour advertisement from page 67 in the December 1985 issue of Keyboard Magazine. This LinnSequencer advertisement was the second last Linn Electronics ad to appear in Keyboard - running in the December 1985 and January 1986 issues. If you recall from last week. When I first became aware of the LinnSequencer, I thought it was simply the sequ...
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Retro Synth Ads: August 2014
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Monday, August 11, 2014. Roland Space Echos "What price clear music" ad, Contemporary Keyboard 1978. Roland Space Echos RE-101/RE-201 and Chorus Echo RE-301 "What price clear music" full page colour advertisement from page 47 in the May 1978 issue of Contemporary Keyboard Magazine. Man, is it just me, or does that black/olive green combo with pops of red look great. Wow, I love that. And, to be clear, I liked both of those ads. :). Get to the point, Retro! According to the RE-201 Wikipedia page. But wait...
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Retro Synth Ads: September 2014
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Monday, September 29, 2014. Moog 902 Voltage Controlled Amplifier brochure, 1976. Moog 902 Voltage Controlled Amplifier four-page brochure from 1976. Voltage Controlled Oscillators aka V. C. A. aka Y. U. M. :). If you are keeping track - this is the forth brochure in the series I've posted. You can view the other posts by clicking on their images below. I've never paid too much attention to VCAs until I really got into modulars. On most "regular" (read: non-modular) synths they usually just kinda sat...
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Concretedog: olympus trip 35
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Friday, 3 October 2014. Mine however had the common stuck aperture syndrome that lots of these have so I had to completely strip down the lens and rebuild which was entertaining (my best tip is to mark a line on the body and then mark every piece you remove lined up with the body mark so you can rebuild the lens with everything in the right place! There's some good instructions/advice about stripping down the trip 35 here. I am pretty pleased with them.(double click to view larger). A small tag in bangor.
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Concretedog: Newcastle Makerspace
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Sunday, 22 February 2015. So had a little trip to Newcastle for some work last week (Normally don't do work on here but I was delivering my new business resilience innovation program 'innoblocks' if interested follow @innoblocks. Whilst there I managed to sneek a trip into Newcastle Makerspace and check out the wonderful space and community they have there. 3dprinters making more 3d printers, mainly repraps but some makerbots too. over 20 in their network now! Some nice vintage space stuff on the walls :).
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Concretedog: January 2014
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Saturday, 25 January 2014. Hand cranked drill - a quick restoration. So I stripped it down, cleaned it up and gave it a few licks of paint with the airbrush as I've picked up a cheap compressor and am getting to grips with airbrushing on various little jobs like this. At some point in it's life someone has hacked a great lump of the main drive gear and "turned" (with a file in a vice! Will have to mount it to a base at some point but all in all I'm pleased how it's turned out. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Concretedog: November 2013
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Saturday, 30 November 2013. 130 story Syra Chapter 1. So for the last few months give or take a few days I have been taking part in an excellent twitter based caper called @130story. Is a twitter account that very kindly each day suggests a word to all the people following the account and you have to write a 130 character story tweet based around the word tagging @130story. On the end which makes it the full 140 character twitter limit. (you can find the full rules here). For the next chapter! She actual...
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Concretedog: More Shed antics
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Sunday, 25 January 2015. I also did another quick project out of the harold hall book today, I made a pair of parallels. Up until now whenever I've needed parallels I've always just used a couple of pieces cut from the same bar stock but I have some projects coming up which will require a bit more accuracy. You then machine across the 2 diameters attached to the angle plate just enough that you have a flat section across the face of them. This face should be exactly at 90 degrees to the cutting face.
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