Wondering what to do rather than buy a missile or bomb today?
You could feed all the region's hungry children for the cost of this war
Or cure a disease
Or buy this €30,000 🪗 instead of a drone
Cavagnolo Digit AiR Série LB12+ Carbon Fibre Digital/Analog Optical Switch Bluetooth OLED Screen, weighs 1.5 kilos (3.3 lbs!)
https://cavagnolo.com/en/accordeon/digital-accordion-air-serie/
#Accordion
it's carbon fiber. that makes it bulletproof/tactical *AND* a musical instrument, right? :)
@paul_ipv6 @AccordionBruce Carbon fiber is very NOT bullet proof.
edit: What you want is a Polycarbonate Accordious machine. Perhaps some kind of Lexane-based titanium frame.
@CatsofArrakis @paul_ipv6
I think you might not want to drop this accordion
But (if it didn’t cost €30,000) it’d be interesting to see some comparison tests
@CatsofArrakis @paul_ipv6
The aluminum standup bass I saw once dating to the Second World War on the other hand…
Used for touring USO bands, and as of 1999 or so fighting the powers in the buildup to the anti-WTO protests in Seattle 🪧 🐢
@CatsofArrakis @AccordionBruce
additional vibrating surfaces can do some interesting stuff.
lloyd loar was a mandolin player who helped the gibson company develop one of its most popular mandolin models, the f5. prior to that, he was involved in the virzi tone producer, a small spruce disk glued to the underside of violin and mandolin tops.
while it was supposed to produce more vibrations and a more complex tone, it also acted as an impedance load on the top. the result was a more directional sound, where more sound went out the front of the instrument, making the sound carry better in a concert hall.
https://www.gibson-prewar.com/virzi-tone-producer-lloyd-loar/
@CatsofArrakis @AccordionBruce
so, *un*sympathetic vibration? :)
@paul_ipv6 @CatsofArrakis
Wasn’t the frying pan 🍳 electric guitar cast aluminum?
Could have been a different world. Are steel guitars still made that way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frying_Pan_(guitar)
@AccordionBruce @CatsofArrakis
solid body electrics sustain based on mass. more mass, longer sustain.
builders have experimented with steel bodies, concrete, etc. the problem is that it gets more sustain but that much weight sucks on the players' shoulder.
cones for resonaphonic instruments have used spun aluminum successfully.
@paul_ipv6 @CatsofArrakis
One of the more Nazi of the captains of the #Hindenburg, Ernst Lehmann, played an aluminum piano on board to save weight
He also played #Accordion, but I don’t know if it was made of aluminum
He went down with the ship
@CatsofArrakis @AccordionBruce
godwin job. like godwin's law. ;)
@paul_ipv6 @CatsofArrakis
I had a chapter about World War II in my book on the history of the Accordion, but it was filled with stories from internment and concentration camps
Stopped the book cold. So I decided to cut it early in development
That was near the peak of the instrument’s global popularity so it was everywhere. Kind of a portable radio of the era
So there was a lot of interesting stuff you could write a book just on that
@paul_ipv6 @CatsofArrakis
I included a few stories about well know artists
Frankie Yankovic almost had his fingers amputated after getting frostbite in the battle of the bulge
Lawrence Welk accordionist Myron Florin was taught “Lili Marlene” by a crowd of Londoners in an air raid shelter in a tube station during the Blitz
But the really ugly stories about folks who survived camps because they could play or repair accordions for left out
I’d like to revisit those stories. Vital stuff
AccordionBruce
Paul_IPv6
Cats of Arrakis
aaron