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Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
Do you take commissions?
Jamie
pfm Member
Decided my desk needed a tidy up today. A years worth of drawings and documents piled up all over, tools and bits of tools not finished. Then spent about 15 minutes shredding the docs (including having to put a new bag in) only hung on to half a dozen for stuff I am currently working on. A trip to the machine shop on Monday to offload a 50mm thick plate of ally, about a 300mm square (can't think why I hung on to that!), and a bag of scrap odds and sods for the scrap bin. Stole a couple of Linn bins from production to put the 'keep' stuff in.
Supposed to have a 'clear desk' policy....ho hum.
Supposed to have a 'clear desk' policy....ho hum.
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
‘tidy desk, empty mind,’ is one way to look at it.
I am at my most creative when the room looks like a bomb has gone off.
At least that is what I tell myself.
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
Today my wonderful The Wife presented me with an unexpected gift.
A spectacular orange corduroy shirt!
This shirt now completes my corduroy shirt quest of several years.
I now have about a dozen corduroy shirts, although it might be 15+ shirts.
The colours include: purple, yellow, dark blue, sky blue, maroon and a sumptuous green. All block colours, no patterns. No black, charcoal or grey.
Trying to convince The Daughter to swap her upright piano that needs tuning badly, for an electric one. Daughter is highly resistant. Bloody kids
A spectacular orange corduroy shirt!
This shirt now completes my corduroy shirt quest of several years.
I now have about a dozen corduroy shirts, although it might be 15+ shirts.
The colours include: purple, yellow, dark blue, sky blue, maroon and a sumptuous green. All block colours, no patterns. No black, charcoal or grey.
Trying to convince The Daughter to swap her upright piano that needs tuning badly, for an electric one. Daughter is highly resistant. Bloody kids
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
Today my wonderful The Wife presented me with an unexpected gift.
A spectacular orange corduroy shirt!
Selfie thread
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
I think my description was adequate.
If I was going to put some images up, it might be of our large tea-towel collection. I been thinking aboot that thread idea for a few years…
lordsummit
Moderator
Maybe just get it tuned? At the end of the day a good acoustic piano is a far superior instrument to a Clavinova.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
hard to visualise though
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
as that. my bench top is usually hidden with tools/materials etc etc I have tried to keep it clear but have found this impossible, so I now make myself tidy up before every tea break, it does help
paulfromcamden
Baffled
No headphone socket though sadly...
lordsummit
Moderator
You can fit a Silent kit to a Yamaha though. Worth it if you’re good enough to appreciate the difference.
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
I have just been over to The Daughters house and had an argument about her piano.
She will not entertain an electric piano.
So the quest to get it tuned continues.
Part of me thinks, ‘how hard can it be to tune a piano? isn’t just like a big guitar?’
If I can learn to tune one key, then it is a piece of peas…
Will youtube be my friend?
Note: I realise this is pie-in-the-sky thinking, but I could at least have a go.
lordsummit
Moderator
No chance, it’s a massively difficult job that requires a hugely trained ear to be able to set the tempering.
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
the piles of records in various states of grading/cleaning gives the hifi room a look of industriousness that makes me feel that I am doing something on any given day.
I use the floor because all that mess will not fit on a desk.
It is tidy, in my head.
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Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
hifinutt
hifinutt
flip. you only bought yours the other day !!
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
just over a year. I can hand back the keys in Sept - lead time on new is about 4 to 6 months.
hifinutt
hifinutt
ah got it . yes waiting times are longer . i nnoticed this today
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Sales of second-hand cars fell sharply last year as fewer used models came onto the market, industry figures show.
A shortage of parts driven by Covid meant fewer new cars were produced, and people hung on to their cars longer as they waited to upgrade.
Some 6.9 million used cars changed hands, down from 7.5 million in 2021, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
However, it said the situation was starting to ease.
The SMMT also said sales of second-hand electric vehicles had bucked the trend.