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Thank you Olya, for my new Soviet calendar. What better day than my birthday, to read all about the balalaika, на русском языке - and celebrate the birthday in 1723 of proto-Marxist Baron Holbach
Балалайка у русского … как мандолина у итальянца, гитара у испанца, банджо у американского негра..
Old-world style almanacs and miscellanies [...]
Getting the right computer graphics is always problematic, particularly if you don’t want to pay for them, don’t know what you want, don’t really have any great flair in graphic design.
The Dover Clipart Collection is very interesting, though, as was the time we spent browsing through the Dover Bookshop in Covent Garden this afternoon. Interesting [...]
Not that it needed saying. Or perhaps it did: as I write, Google reports no pages containing that phrase. You can “future-proof your network” a lot, and you can also “age-proof your mind”. Perhaps they are essentially one and the same thing.
More non-vinyl Apple goodies at EIL include, most interestingly, labels for Zapple singles. Given that Zapple never released any singles, this is quite an interesting find. Since the label is little more than a standard Apple label with “Zapple” scrawled across the top, its aesthetic merit is limited, but it’s an interesting curio nonetheless.
The two [...]
Rare records dealers EIL continue to scrape the barrel for lots of Apple ephemera. Among the latest batch is a press pack for Apple Studios, built at great expense in the basement of 3 Savile Row. Famously unfinished in time for the Beatles’ 1969 Get Back sessions, the studios were eventually completed in 1970/1971, and [...]
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