"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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A whole generation has missed out
on vinyl, which, for many, holds a deep fascination.

Clearly it does for you.

Not really (snip)

That's not the impression I get from reading your posts here ;-)

It's fun to see the man from Detroit
turn apoplectic, and start to rant and scream about
"vinyl bigots", etc etc:-)

Is it? seems pretty childish behaviour to me.

I look after my LP record collection with care, and clean the
surfaces often. I have two high-grade turntables of my own,
EMT948 and 401/SME3012/V15III and these give me
very good results indeed. Due to the huge amount of music
not available on CD, I cannot possibly even consider life
without a turntable.

What about the huge amount of music not available on vinyl?


You seem, to share a parallel interest with a former colleague
of mine, now working as an AD in TV, who is very knowledgeable
on the subject of Fantasia from both the technical and the artistic angle.

I first saw Fantasia at the age of six. It made a huge impression on me at
the time (esp. the Rite of Spring and Night on Bald Mountain sequences) and
I have been mildly obsessed with it ever since.

And from another technology I'm also fascinated by the pre-war Baird
240-line TV system used on alternate weeks at Ally Pally from Sept 1936 to
Feb 1937. For which not only does no hardware survive, but most of the
documentation was destroyed in the Crystal Palace fire of 1936.

Do you know people with a similar interest? Are there discussion
groups for such subjects?

Yes and yes.

It an important part of the British
broadcasting heritage.

I agree, it's a shame that the BBC doesn't. The old TV studios at AP would
be an ideal place for a well-funded museum of TV broadcasting. But neither
the BBC nor any other organisation wants to stump up the funds.

But I accept that I'm unusual in finding this stuff interesting.

Probably not as unusual as you may think. Even in a smallish
city like HKI I know two people who have 16mm projectors
at home, in purpose-built rooms.

LOL! two people in a city hardly counts as more than an insignificant
minority!

I know someone who lives near me who has a 35mm cinema projector installed
in his modest terrace house. The projector is in what was meant to be the
dining room with a port cut through into the living room where the screen
is. This projector is fitted with a replay head for 4-track mag sound, and
he even has a striped 35mm print of a feature film that he can run on it.
Goodness knows how he managed to acquire that, better not to ask ;-).
..

Most people, especially young people IME, couldn't care less about
vintage
audio-video technology. And I am far from convinced that "many" people
are
fascinated by vinyl.

I come into contact with large numbers of young musicians.
There is a great deal of interest in British popular music of
the 1960s. These young players scoured the second hand
shops looking for music in which they are interested. It didn't
take them long to get hooked on vinyl.

That would depend on the sort of music they are interested in. You talk a
lot about jazz, and I guess that's an area where vinyl retains some
significance. In the village in which I live there are two families with
musically talented children, in one household the turntable is stored in a
junk room and, judging by the dust is little used, the other doesn't have a
turntable at all (they recently asked me to transfer a few LPs they owned to
CD-R). But in both cases the major interest is classical music, and five of
the six young people involved are girls, who are rather less likely to
become geeky about vintage replay technology.


It's a sunny but "crisp" morning- -24.5C. I don't think I shall
be taking lunch in the garden. I have lit a roaring log fire -
no gig till this evening:-)


It's a miserable day here today, not that cold (4C), but dull, overcast and
misty.
I'm not having lunch in the garden either, but I'll wait until later to
light the woodburner.

David.