On 23/10/17 20:17, Iain wrote:

Back in the day, most audio enthusiasts were also keen constructors, valve amp kits, instructions for projects from Mullard, or circuits from Wireless World were put together on kitchen tables on rsiny Saturday afternoons throughout the UK. Speaker building was also popular. Drawings of Tannoy and Goodmans cabinets were available, and Kef produced Kefkits. For those who wanted to make music, the possibilities were somewhat limited but the Ferrograph enabled those who could sing and play guitar or piano, to record themselves at 7.5 ips. Vortexion and Brenell tape machines offered sound on sound, NAB reels and 15 ips, Reslo and Film Industry mics were hugely popular and devices such as the Grampian spring reverb unit were something to dream about.

I was leafing through an old 1980 copy of Hifi News and Record Review,
marvelling at the amount of constructional projects in that mag. Wow and
tears that that general interest doesn't exist anymore.

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“Bewitched” by Cole Porter (1939) is one of my favourite tunes from this project. Yours truly wrote the arrangement, co-produced and engineered the recording, overdubbed his part in the saxophone section and also tootled the tenor solo.

Here is an mp3.
Please Take a listen. Comments are welcome.

http://mosabackabigband.com/data/doc.../Bewitched.mp3

Wow #2.

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Adrian C