Links (analog style) and downloads
The Analog Dept.
Gift Shoppe
Headshell screws for Thorens tonearms. Now available from
The analog Dept.
cartridge mounting screws for headshells other than Thorens. Now
available.
Listening room art:
"Blown Away" by Stephen Steigman
Maxell (audio cassette tape) television ad from 1979. "Blown Away".
Musician Peter Murphy of the group Bauhaus is the model sitting in the chair. In the making of the video footage, a large fan (wind machine) was used to generate enough wind to fly Murphy's necktie, tilt the lampshade and knock over the martini. The lamp stand itself had to be secured to the floor or it would have blown over as did the martini. In the ad, Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" was used for the soundtrack in the US. In the UK it was "A Night on Bare Mountain" by Mussorgsky. This advertisement, more than any other television ad, captures the imagination of audiophiles.
The photo above is widely available as a 36 x 24 inch poster. Here are two links:
Blown Away
Art Print
Steigman
36 in. x 24 in.
from
AllPosters.com
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The Beatles Revolver 16 x 16 (inch) art print.
The cover illustration was designed by klaus Voormann, who was one of the Beatles' oldest friends from their days at the Star club in Hamburg. Voormann's illustration, part line drawing and part collage, included photographs by Robert Whitaker.
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The Beatles Revolver
Art Print
From
AllPosters.com
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Poster
35 in. x 22 in.
Buy at AllPosters.com
His Master's Voice, by Francis Barraud
The famous image was painted by English artist Francis Barraud and titled "His Master's Voice". In 1899 the newly formed Gramophone company purchased the painting from Barraud and used it as the company trademark image. The dog, a fox terrier named Nipper, had originally belonged to Barraud's brother Mark. When Mark Barraud died, Francis inherited Nipper, along with a cylinder phonograph and a number of recordings of Mark's voice. Francis noticed the peculiar interest that the dog took in the recorded voice of his late master emanating from the horn speaker, then conceived the scene with Nipper looking into the horn speaker of a cylinder phonograph. He applied for copyright of the original painting using the title "Dog looking at and listening to a Phonograph". He was unable to sell the work to any cylinder phonograph company, but The Gramophone Company purchased it later that year, under the condition that Barraud modify it to show one of their disc machines. The image was first used on the company's publicity material in 1900. Later, per request of the gramophone's inventor Emile Berliner, the American rights to the picture became owned by the Victor Talking Machine Company. Victor used the image more frequently than its UK partner. From 1902 all Victor records had a drawing of the dog and gramophone from Barraud's painting on the label. Ironically, the painting is of Nipper listening to Mark's voice, which was possible with the rolls created on the Ediphone original, but was not possible on a disc gramophone as pictured, which can only play back.
His Masters Voice
Art Print
Barraud, Francis
32 in. x 24 in.
From
AllPosters.com
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