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- Switzerland
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- Matt
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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Quite cool, Matt.
And musically rather hysterical at moments. Like when the accordion player starts playing lines that are half New Orleans zydeco, and half Mexican or Tex-Mex norteño - or when the banjo player starts channeling Bela Fleck.
I also (confession follows) can't believe my own musical ignorance - having never heard Steve'n'Seagulls before. Damn. So, once more, many many thanxxx for broadening my musical horizons!
- Location
- Switzerland
- Name
- Matt
I'm sure I've used them before - but I don't expect everyone to listen to everything, so it's legitimate to have missed them.
However, I think as long as they to their "live" thing, they're fantastic and always worth a listen. Like other bands, if they enter the music industry's usual circus, they tend to be smoothed over and over-produced; thankfully, most of their YouTube stuff is untainted ...
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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Fooling around this morning with the Macro Mode on my small-sensor X30 - and my subject is a close angle on the Shift - and 'Floating Shift' - keys of the ancient Smith & Corona typewriter that belonged to my late Aunt, a writer and historian.
When shift keys were invented for typewriters, they originally shifted the cylinder, or platen, to be struck in a new position by the capital letters on a typebar. But the "Floating Shift" moved the typebars up and down instead, allowing for a smoother - and supposedly much quieter - typing action. Of course, none of this now seemingly ancient mechanical technology has survived in the keys on the laptops or desktop computers that many of us use - but I must confess to an endless fascination regarding the ongoing evolution of writing tools.
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When shift keys were invented for typewriters, they originally shifted the cylinder, or platen, to be struck in a new position by the capital letters on a typebar. But the "Floating Shift" moved the typebars up and down instead, allowing for a smoother - and supposedly much quieter - typing action. Of course, none of this now seemingly ancient mechanical technology has survived in the keys on the laptops or desktop computers that many of us use - but I must confess to an endless fascination regarding the ongoing evolution of writing tools.
