Do you yearn for the days when instruments ..

[Peter Korsten]

From: Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net>

>http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/12/drumbuddy.html
>
>What a wonderfully inspiring thing.  I'd take a half-assed attempt at  
>cloning this on the DIY front over a criminally overpriced factory- 
>produced drum machine with 2c buttons and yesterdays washing machine  
>displays, any single day .. okay okay, I know, I'm boring with this  
>anti-establishment rant, but hot damnit if the DIY/Self-maker crowd  
>aren't getting me all hot and sticky more and more as I get older and  
>boringer ..

Yesterday, we were in a shop in Gent (Ghent/Gand) - which, by the way, is a stunning place - which sells these design gadgets for your home: rubber vases, a funny looking set of cat feeding bowls at ?41, vases for a single rose that have thorns on the side, that sort of thing - and they had these mini stereo systems of a firm called Tivoli Audio:

http://www.tivoliaudio.com/

They're really cute and small, and they have not too many buttons and knobs on them. More than the retro factor, I thought they looked like fun to use.

The price, well, look at the cat feeding bowls and extrapolate from there. But the design makes you think.

- Peter 

 
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