pre-2009
Moving to Switzerland 1970
Comparative images January 1970: I drove to Geneva with just basics as I had no apartment as yet. The car broke down around Canterbury on way to the ferry at Dover. In France the drive was on small roads through…
Cadet Force Four
Latest Cadet Force series project History and preparation for ‘Cadet Force Four’, our 2024 Cadet Force series project: Mr. Churchill took up residence in a ‘secret safe house’ at Clapham Park, Clapham, near Bedford during the Second World War and…
Cadet Force 3
Based at an army barracks in the UK in the mid 60’s. Our latest Cadet Force scenario is triggered by a long-time friend in England, who lives close to the barracks. Cadet Force 3 has been regularly updated while experimenting…
Cadet Force 2,3,&4
Cadet Force series: 2,3,&4. Cadet Force 4 — project ‘Churchill visits the Barracks’. — Churchill’s Land Rover Cadet Force 3 — Post and Movie ‘Ready to defend’ Cadet Force 2: “From photograph to finale”.Using historical black and white photographs to…
Slide rule transitions
At school in the 1960’s, log tables were very much the prime aid to calculations during the math and science classes. The transition from them – we were allowed to use a slide rule – followed by we had to…
Transport perspectives (5)
Analog video example (2) from our digital archive project — the Vallée de Joux steam train — filmed in 1992 on Sony Hi8 analog tape – one of the earliest of our movies to be converted to DVD and now…
Kybd & emulation – 2004
MIDI environment from the 1990’s https://vimeo.com/244149969 https://vimeo.com/244150112 These two pieces use software-generated piano. Although, in search of a decent sound the only real solution was, and is, a real piano – the sound, the attack, the touch, the feeling (our…
Post tonewheel – Concorde
Technical and musical – pictures and performances The web is saturated with Hammond B3 recordings, but not of Concorde – it wasn’t really a successful instrument – an attempt by Hammond to maintain their famous B-3 sound in a…
Hammond B-3
The Hammond B-3 – “Beauty in the B” – This amazing sound has survived generations and, although the sound today is mostly produced by software tone-wheel modelling (see post on VST instruments), many musicians remain insistent on retaining the original…
Hammond – entry
The year, 1970 – the search for an affordable Hammond – the place, London, Hammersmith, the Hammond Organ Center. The result: a “spinet” model, the T-200 with built-in rotating speaker. Nice tone-wheel sound yet compact size for a small apartment,…
Pre-Hammond
The ‘Philicorda’ by Philips entered our home as soon as enough money was coming in to pay the second-hand car installments and a few rounds of beer. It was very welcome to a family with no piano, no lessons, no…
America1 – 1980
1980 America René and Walti One of Las Vegas most incredible acts — we saw it and then invited friends and went back a second time the next evening ! Always thought of them as Swiss, but clearly not. Siegfried…
Organ & Pizza
In the archives we find an original tape recorded circa 1970 in California on a UHER portable machine. (4000 report-L, 7.5 “/sec, mono, half track) – Pizza & Pipes at the “Cap’ns Galley”. One surviving image of the Uher which…
Cinema organ
Since 1934 at the Granada, Bedford, the console of the mighty Wurlitzer would appear, rising majestically from the floor – for musical entertainment prior to film projection. This stereo recording ≈ 1966 – captured during a private performance. The cinema…
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