Thomas Preece

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A selection of my classical arrangements for ukulele solos and ensembles. All available as printed books or pay-what-you-like ebooks from https://preecemusic.com

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Ten years ago tonight, someone was very unimpressed that I'd put the tuna in my dinner and not in hers! 😂

I inherited this cassette deck from my grandfather. It's been sitting mostly unused for the last few years, because at over 40 years old it was starting to fail in a few different ways. But I've now spent far too much time and more money than it's really worth getting it fixed up, including paying someone to replace all the capacitors and replacing half of the mechanical parts with good ones from an identical machine, and finally it works great and is going to see daily use again!

The tape ("Team en Esperanto") is one that I always seem to end up playing first on any machine I've just fixed up.

BTW does anyone know anything about the different types of meters on tape decks? These consistently register about 6 dB lower when playing music than the linear LED or fluorescent meters on other decks, even though I lined them up with tones at 0 dB just the same. I assume they have a 300 ms integration time (even though they don't specify VU), whereas non-mechanical meters might be showing peaks?

2026 estas aparte grava jaro por Esperanto-muziko, ĉar okazos la centjara jubileo de la unuaj diskoj en la lingvo. Mia antaŭa artikolo diras ke ili probable estas la plej fruaj; post plia esplorado mi nun povas klarigi, ke ili tio ja estas. Ĝisdatigo kun pliaj informoj aperos iam en 2026, probable ĉirkaŭ la datreveno en aŭgusto.

https://eomuziko.com/eo/posts/esperinst/

#Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko

There must be an obscure British word for bread roll that rhymes with "cadence".

(Apparently it's actually meant to be "plagal on a bagel")

I do have tapes that aren't in Esperanto too... this one's in toki pona! It's a home-made one and quite possibly the only cassette of toki pona music in the whole world (please prove me wrong, I'd like to meet fellow toki pona retro tech enthusiasts!)
Deck is fully serviced and calibrated, so now for some music... en Esperanto, kompreneble!
Not bad. The frequency is supposed to be as close to 3000 Hz as possible, and the wow and flutter as low as possible. I don't have a lab-grade test tape, so the w&f on the recording is unspecified and so the machine is actually performing quite a bit better than that already reasonable figure.
Ne pafu en mi, Ludoviko!
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