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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:52:36 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote


They have published a rather strange review on that web site. It (one
of just three) said that the PM7s sounded as if they had a blanket in
front of them. Very damning thing to admit.


Not too bright, is it?

:-)

Forget the 'blanket' thing - that's only some wattock's view; the entire
point of Lowthers is their *clarity*, which is far too much for some!!

The description of the drivers makes it look like they are all exactly
the same apart from the size of the magnets - is that so? (I'm
obviously talking within a model range here).


Yep, just about! You can also mess around with phase plugs (twigs, Orangina
bottles &c.) and specify silver wire voice coils at a price (I bet) if you
want to, but these people who 'tweak' and go the upgrade path with Lowthers
must have much better ears than I do - I couldn't differentiate between the
'cheapo' PM6Cs I have and the top-range EX3s I also had a while back!

(So I punted them out on eBay :-)

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"Keith G" wrote


Yep, just about! You can also mess around with phase plugs (twigs,
Orangina bottles &c.) and specify silver wire voice coils at a price (I
bet) if you want to,



Not to mention what *Jewish* Lowther users do with the whizzers!!

:-O

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Keith wrote:

Earles forks on a BMW outfit? Sounds just like the rig I
should have had and have been thinking about for a long
while now!

Yes. With the totally beautiful tapered elliptical tubing.
'50s Steib chair, R100R engine, triple discs, made for a
woman with one leg, but not the other. No sidecar brake, for
best fun.

Needs some work, as they say.

Got any pix?

http://www.ivesonaudio.pwp.blueyonde...k/S7300105.JPG

Ian

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"Ian Iveson" wrote in message
...
Keith wrote:

Earles forks on a BMW outfit? Sounds just like the rig I should have had
and have been thinking about for a long while now!

Yes. With the totally beautiful tapered elliptical tubing. '50s Steib
chair, R100R engine, triple discs, made for a woman with one leg, but not
the other. No sidecar brake, for best fun.

Needs some work, as they say.

Got any pix?

http://www.ivesonaudio.pwp.blueyonde...k/S7300105.JPG

Ian





Excellent! Tank looks quite modern; headlamp is awesome!

If it wuz mine, I'd just do it up sound/reliable/tidy/roadworthy/MOT and get
the seat rebuilt then ride it and not bother about any *restoration*!!

Is it an unleaded conversion?

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"Ian Iveson" wrote

A long time
ago, I used to play an E-flat bass, and it took so long for a note to get
out that to play anything fast I had to block its sound out of my mind
otherwise I got confused between what I was playing and what I played a
little while ago. It also carried on playing after I stopped blowing.

Any tuba player (Eb, F, Bb or C bass) in a orchestras or militarty band
will tell you that with a "slow speaking instrument" they need to play
"ahead of the beat" to compensate.

That's why they are restricted to umpah, umpah.

The role of the brass bass is to provide the first and third beats
of a 4/4 bar. But it is certainly not restricted to "umpah, umpah"
There are may compositions particularly in military band repertoire
where both Eb ad Bb basses are given fluid melodic passages to
great effect.

French horn players in orchestras must be really clever to play their more
complex passages ahead of time.

The same applies to the baritone, bass and contra-bass saxophone,
French horn, (and also the wildly popular Sarusaphone:-)

Do you still play Eb bass, Ian?
In a former life, I played both euphonium and French horn.
I am now struggling with hot licks on the tenor saxophone

Iain

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:51:00 +0300, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

Any tuba player (Eb, F, Bb or C bass) in a orchestras or militarty band
will tell you that with a "slow speaking instrument" they need to play
"ahead of the beat" to compensate.

That's why they are restricted to umpah, umpah.

The role of the brass bass is to provide the first and third beats
of a 4/4 bar.

And that's a role that requires immaculate timing. Which a good player
can achieve. He can also be remarkably agile.

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"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:51:00 +0300, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

Any tuba player (Eb, F, Bb or C bass) in a orchestras or militarty band
will tell you that with a "slow speaking instrument" they need to play
"ahead of the beat" to compensate.

That's why they are restricted to umpah, umpah.

The role of the brass bass is to provide the first and third beats
of a 4/4 bar.

And that's a role that requires immaculate timing. Which a good player
can achieve. He can also be remarkably agile.

Yes indeed. There are excellent compositions by composers
such a Berlioz and Glinka where Bb ad Eb basses, plus euphoniums
are given fluid melodic passages, requiring extreme precision
which good players relish and at which they excel. I have some
recordings made at the Royal Military School of Music "Kneller Hall"
which illustrate this well.


Iain

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Keith G wrote:

Yes. With the totally beautiful tapered elliptical
tubing. '50s Steib chair, R100R engine, triple discs,
made for a woman with one leg, but not the other. No
sidecar brake, for best fun.

Needs some work, as they say.

Got any pix?

http://www.ivesonaudio.pwp.blueyonde...k/S7300105.JPG


Excellent! Tank looks quite modern; headlamp is awesome!

If it wuz mine, I'd just do it up
sound/reliable/tidy/roadworthy/MOT and get the seat
rebuilt then ride it and not bother about any
*restoration*!!

Tank is maybe R90S with older style badges. Headlamp is a
mystery...possibly original R50 with much later R100R
section welded in to accomodate the later wiring loom. The
engineers that built it made a big effort for the wife of
one of them, who lost the use of a leg in a road accident.
What sad story resulted in its sale I didn't want to ask.

It doesn't need restoring because it's generally sound, and
has no pedigree anyway coz it's a bitza. It was awaiting a
rear tyre and a clutch friction plate (both wear out more
quickly with a chair) when kids came with a hammer and
smashed all the glass except for the headlight. That put it
on the back burner. A replacement S/H instrument pod is
£hundreds from a dealer, and it will need a thorough service
now it's been standing for a while.

If I were the sentimental type I'd say it needs a good home.
I also suspect it's pining for the Alps...tragically, it has
expectations of a grand touring lifestyle.

Is it an unleaded conversion?

Not AFAIK. I was waiting for symptoms, but none appeared.
Headwork is complicated by need to remove sidecar...

Ian

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"Ian Iveson" wrote

Tank is maybe R90S with older style badges. Headlamp is a
mystery...possibly original R50 with much later R100R section welded in to
accomodate the later wiring loom. The engineers that built it made a big
effort for the wife of one of them, who lost the use of a leg in a road
accident. What sad story resulted in its sale I didn't want to ask.

It doesn't need restoring because it's generally sound, and has no
pedigree anyway coz it's a bitza. It was awaiting a rear tyre and a clutch
friction plate (both wear out more quickly with a chair) when kids came
with a hammer and smashed all the glass except for the headlight. That put
it on the back burner. A replacement S/H instrument pod is £hundreds from
a dealer, and it will need a thorough service now it's been standing for a
while.

If I were the sentimental type I'd say it needs a good home. I also
suspect it's pining for the Alps...tragically, it has expectations of a
grand touring lifestyle.

Is it an unleaded conversion?

Not AFAIK. I was waiting for symptoms, but none appeared. Headwork is
complicated by need to remove sidecar...


Some coincidence you post this today!- I was poised to go over to Cambridge
(Haywards) and look at an Enfield outfit today, but I let the feint
possibility of rain put me off to give me the opportunity to ponder the
prospect deeply and buy me a bit more time to think - the phrases 'it has
been stood outside for a while'; 'needs to go through the workshop to be
tidied up' and 'a new front mudguard needs to be fitted' didn't make me any
more enthusiastic on what might have been a questionable rig to start with,
so in the end to kill it off, I pulled the trigger on a nice new 1080p DLP
PJ from Amazon! (That's it done with now - I can't afford both! :-)

Very sorry to hear about the vandalism; a sign of the times today, I'm sorry
to say - no kid would have dreamt of damaging a bike (any bike) when I was a
lad. Mark it down as another symptom of the new, slack-arsed, good for
nothing *digital era*....!!

Anyway, I hope you get it sorted out soon - poor old thing needs it, from
what you say!!