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BalloonFish posted:My ambition is to have the space to properly strip it down, replace/repair the vacuum assembly as required and properly restore and re-voice it. hell yeah the electric pump in mine is pretty loud- the midcentury modder did a good job of putting it down in one corner of the organ, so it's well-muffled- MUCH louder when the top is open- but I'd like the pump's hum to be more of a whisper
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Peanut Butler posted:provide a stable desktop environment without heavy modification to let it use SATA I wonder what percentage of Pis live as dedicated retro consoles and nothing else.
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Considering how often I hear dudes on the internet saying they just finished setting up their Pi as an emulator I'm going to ballpark and say 70%.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Napoleon Dynamite Correct
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I did not end up buying that organ. Upon fear of needing new organs after my Minister of War and Finance gave me 'that' look. Also worried about the reliably of 3-4 strong friends to amble up the stairs.
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moonmazed posted:you can't cut back on organs! you will regret this! Well, I'm not cutting back on orgasms. At least the consoles all blend into the mess of other hardware that she doesn't notice.
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Kwyndig posted:Considering how often I hear dudes on the internet saying they just finished setting up their Pi as an emulator I'm going to ballpark and say 70%. This depends, are we excluding the ones sitting in a drawer forgotten?
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Peanut Butler posted:hell yeah A gratuitous picture of my organ 
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Oh, how pretty. Mason & Hamlin remain a prestige piano maker, so I bet their organs were pretty good.
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As Tom Waits said, the only thing better than roses on your piano is tulips on your organ.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Oh, how pretty. Mason & Hamlin remain a prestige piano maker, so I bet their organs were pretty good. By all accounts M&H were considered among the best of the mass-production organ makers in the 19th century - they were well respected for the tone and voicing, the high quality of the materials used, especially the brass and steel in the reeds, which other manufacturers, selling more to the consumer/household market, often skimped on - in fact they deliberately made their reeds in odd shapes and sizes so they couldn't be copied or swapped into an inferior competitor's instrument. They largely resisted the trend to offer more and more stops and gizmos. Where other manufacturers packed loads of sets of reeds into their organs, affecting both the 'breathing' and the sound, M&H kept providing their reeds with generous-sized air cells so the sound is amplified and resonated and large empty spaces under the swell shutters. Where they did up the number of reed sets, they fitted multiple vacuum valves so that the sound and tone weren't strangled by making one set of valves do too much work. It is interesting how so much of 'modern' consumerism existed in the reed organ industry. America made over 2 million reed organs between 1870 and 1900, and you can see all the parallels with the auto industry - the mass production of quite complex mechanical objects, the development of ranges and sub-brands aimed at different markets and budgets, celebrity endorsements (M&H had a range of prestige 'Liszt' instruments), an options list (you could choose a basic model of organ and then select the exact specification or gadgets), the arms race of competitors trying to out-do each other with features (some of which were useful and many of which were gimmicks), the financing and hire-purchase agreements to finance them and all that sort of stuff. Hirayuki posted:As Tom Waits said, the only thing better than roses on your piano is tulips on your organ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWo4ufMkG4
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Iron Crowned posted:I miss LAN parties, I went to about 3 of them, but it was always a blast staying up all night playing Starcraft in your friend's basement. i used to host lanparties in my house and still go to one twice a year with the same group of dudes. it sucks that games dont faciliate lan parties anymore
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Shibawanko posted:i used to host lanparties in my house and still go to one twice a year with the same group of dudes. it sucks that games dont faciliate lan parties anymore We do a three day EU 4 LAN every easter, and it's great. Online-only last year, but it looks like it will be in-person again this year. Speaking of obsolete tech, the viking reenactment market is finally back on, too. I've missed sitting around in a linen tent breathing wood smoke.
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So I went back to that estate sale I found the blank supertape cassettes at a few weeks back. Found a whole bunch more random tech I missed the first time. As luck would have it, I checked what I assumed was a fake leather covered jewelry / keepsake box. Inside, I found what I'm assuming was a dealer/tradeshow promotional item.  A sample 2 pack of BASFs professional series cassettes with a standard and a metal tape still sealed with letter introducing the line to the consumer. Probably not worth much but neat. I also poked around and the guy had a few hundred supertapes that he had dubbed albums on but no way of knowing if they were in good enough condition to hassle with.
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my turn in the barrel posted:So I went back to that estate sale I found the blank supertape cassettes at a few weeks back. That is something I would for some reason treasure and have on display at home
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Humphreys posted:That is something I would for some reason treasure and have on display at home
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my turn in the barrel posted:
I think you know that this isn't true.
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my turn in the barrel posted:So I went back to that estate sale I found the blank supertape cassettes at a few weeks back. I remember seeing BASF commercials like this one as a kid, during weekday afternoon cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NQuMr45xd4 Even as a child, I used to wonder what the hell they were even advertising. Finally seeing a product with their name on it is giving me a weird form of closure.
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Lamprotornis posted:I remember seeing BASF commercials like this one as a kid, during weekday afternoon cartoons: Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik, IIRC. They made a lot of the cassettes my parents had, and I think I had both floppies and CD-Rs from them. I guess being in non-UK Europe made me more likely to run into them?
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wa27 posted:I think you know that this isn't true. I will admit I get lucky sometimes. I once found what I assumed was a knockoff weber smoky Joe at a garage sale for $5. Asked around and it was a first few months of production one from 1955 and I had a dude email me a few years later from my post and pay me $1000 cash for it. I checked ebay and Google for the tape sampler and didn't find anything similar. Based on a cassette collector site it appears that line/packaging was introduced in 1976 so these would have to be from 1975 or 76. Verbiage in the note seems to indicate it was sent to dealers. It's neat but probably obscure enough that there isn't a huge market for it to drive the price up unless someone like techmoan finds one and makes a video. I dug through the boxes and found more cool stuff like a BSR spectrum analyzer, realistic apm100 power meter, realistic quad decoder, Dolby dbx box, realistic spl meter etc... Might be time to start a new hobby YouTube channel. I have a firearms one that I kind of lost interest in because it got demonitized, but I don't think weird electronics/cooking/photography/videogame/computer poo poo will get demonitized like guns. I always assumed BASF was like the European 3m. Edit: Bonus shots of the BASF sampler, from the fancy box I really expected a broach or letter opener or something.    Bonus video of the BSR Spectrum Analyzer https://youtu.be/Re4Ep5amRDw my turn in the barrel has a new favorite as of 02:03 on Mar 2, 2022 |
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Did more digging and found a few ads in Google books scans of 1970s billboard magazines that make it seem likely the BASF sampler came from the NARM show. 
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I never listen to cassettes but Techmoan has made me sad I can't properly listen to them.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I never listen to cassettes but Techmoan has made me sad I can't properly listen to them. I mean, you absolutely can - but you need to buy vintage gear, with the fun and risks that entails.
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Computer viking posted:Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik, IIRC. They were certainly all over the place in Norway.
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If acquiring an organ involves moving it up or down stairs, you'll have better luck designing and building a pipe organ from scratch than you will getting people to agree to help you move it. See also: upright player pianos (which can weigh upwards of 800 pounds).
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Groke posted:They were certainly all over the place in Norway. Yup.
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Lamprotornis posted:I remember seeing BASF commercials like this one as a kid, during weekday afternoon cartoons: BASF is the globally largest chemical industry company by sales. One of the large German companies - with all the good and bad history that entails for German companies active in the 20th century. They are producing a very wide portfolio of stuff - basic chemicals, monomers, polymers, but are also still in the oil business (via Wintershall). Their iron oxide business and the related marketing on cassette tapes were a big play to increase awareness of the BASF name with a positively charged product. See their large chem park in Ludwigshafen in Germany: 
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Loki Kunti posted:See their large chem park in Ludwigshafen in Germany: Site of the fourth largest manmade non-nuclear explosion!
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my turn in the barrel posted:Retro audio gear If you find an RF AC-3 Audio demodulator for like $5 let me know! I may pay your 10 times that for it!
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Computer viking posted:I mean, you absolutely can - but you need to buy vintage gear, with the fun and risks that entails. Yeah but the belts are always bad, and replacing them is so very complicated. More things I've learned from Techmoan.
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Drum machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNgJcX2ckZQ&t=65s
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this is unbelievable. I tend to not watch this guy's videos but drat he sure finds amazing stuff.
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He's back!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tZLCCLMws4
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THATCHED ROOF COTTAGES!!! 
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Humphreys posted:If you find an RF AC-3 Audio demodulator for like $5 let me know! I may pay your 10 times that for it! I didn't see one but when I bought my marantz gear back in ~2000 I had to buy an entire collection of 30 other things. All I sold off was a Sansui G9000 and a Marantz 1150d a couple years back for most of what I paid for it all. There was a couple of surround processors in there. But I just looked and only saw one of them in the storage closet. It's a Yamaha DSP-1 I'm in the process of moving all that stuff so I'll have to see what else I come across.  I know I have a laserdisc player, CED player, betamax, 8 tracks, rtr recorders etc.. all squirreled away that either came in that collection or from garage/estate/rummage sales back then. At the time anything that wasn't a DVD player or Ipod/Mp3 player was considered worthless so I got all kinds of neat tech for peanuts.
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my turn in the barrel posted:I didn't see one but when I bought my marantz gear back in ~2000 I had to buy an entire collection of 30 other things. All I sold off was a Sansui G9000 and a Marantz 1150d a couple years back for most of what I paid for it all. Hmmm. Splatter target on a turntable. Could make some neat art.
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https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1498852821793345538?s=20&t=2dxJtrjXjMKysQB2CEZucA https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1498853060990226433?s=20&t=2dxJtrjXjMKysQB2CEZucA
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