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  1. How did 1600s Dutch households keep their fire embers from going out at night? With a curfew.

    Yes, it's a pun. Curfews were metal covers that kept fire embers smouldering overnight, to be revived for the next day's cooking and heating. The word curfew comes from the French for fire cover (couvre feu).

    The brass one pictured here is among the earliest to survive, made in Holland but now in London's V&A. It's embossed with an image of Saint Lawrence.

    This is dark humour, since Lawrence was roasted alive in the third century—punishment for perhaps the first Christian protest. The early church's refusal to worship Roman gods led to persecution. Lawrence was ordered to surrender the church's treasures to authorities. He turned up with the sick, marginalized, poor, elderly, and widows, boldly proclaiming: “These are the true treasures of the church.” For this insolence, he was martyred (killed).

    #art #design #brass #heating #fire #religion #saint #martyr #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #UK

  2. How did 1600s Dutch households keep their fire embers from going out at night? With a curfew.

    Yes, it's a pun. Curfews were metal covers that kept fire embers smouldering overnight, to be revived for the next day's cooking and heating. The word curfew comes from the French for fire cover (couvre feu).

    The brass one pictured here is among the earliest to survive, made in Holland but now in London's V&A. It's embossed with an image of Saint Lawrence.

    This is dark humour, since Lawrence was roasted alive in the third century—punishment for perhaps the first Christian protest. The early church's refusal to worship Roman gods led to persecution. St Lawrence was ordered to surrender the church's treasures to authorities. He turned up with the sick, marginalized, poor, elderly, and widows, boldly proclaiming: “These are the true treasures of the church.” For this insolence, he was roasted to death.

    #art #design #brass #heating #fire #religion #saint #martyr #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #UK

  3. Yamaha

    Japan Technology

    Many of you only know Yamaha from a few of their skillsets.

    Yes I said skillsets not products.

    Yamaha has specialists in many fields

    They create wonderful things in the fields of

    • Music
    • instruments
    • woodwinds
    • brass
    • trumpet
    • tuba
    • saxophone
    • bass
    • alto
    • tenor
    • sopraan
    • sopranino
    • strings
    • Bass Guitars
    • acoustic
    • electric
    • Guitars
    • violins
    • ContraBass
    • cello
    • recorders
    • Audio
    • tape decks (Pro Open Reel)
    • turntables
    • cassette decks
    • radios
    • receivers
    • transceivers
    • Pro Audio
    • Mixing console
    • multiple channel
    • from 8 to 32 analog
    • FOH mixing console
    • stage mixing console
    • compressor
    • limiter
    • equalizer
    • microphones
    • dynamic
    • condenser
    • PA speakers
    • passive
    • active
    • floor monitors
    • FOH speaker systems (full sets)
    • passive
    • active
    • subwoofer
    • studio monitor
    • amplifiers
    • class B
    • class D
    • Bass guitar enclosures
    • Bass amp heads
    • guitar enclosures
    • guitar amp heads
    • Display systems
    • [data]
    • Mechanics
    • engines
    • motorcycles
    • RD 400 2 stroke Daytona
    • mopeds

    With the subjects I just mentioned I only covered the surface of what Yamaha specialists can produce with their skillsets

    If you purchase a Yamaha Grand Piano, Yamaha goes so far that when you've chosen it (in person!) they deliver install, secure and tune your grand piano, so your experience is similar to what their musicians and technical building experts have (had) when building and playing the Grand.

    Yamaha has perfectionists who live and work by the principle of Kysen. They will tune and tweak their sublime work so it becomes even more sublime. Yamaha specialists gurus and experts do this in all fields that Yamaha is in.

    Images & photographs

    As you see I've included photographs of an 8 channel Yamaha portable mixing system, designed for micro live performance, with a build in two channel class D amplifier, and a set of dual driver speakers / monitors, which I use when I need balanced physical PA speaker output, that my sets of headphones cannot produce, in the studio, simply because the physics in combination with the acoustics prohibits such output.
    The system is tuned to the space, thus is small.
    It delivers a balanced flat sound up to 90dB of SPL in the this closed real world setting, if needed (though that is rare)
    This level has been measured (and is regularly done). I do this to make sure I don't overload my ears with dB thus damaging my precious engineering organs

    Yamaha in my personal and Pro live

    Yamaha plays an important role in my professional PA live.

    • I have mixing consoles made by them, which blow all others just plain out of the water, when I chose those Yamaha consoles.Note 1
    • microphones
    • dynamic
    • condenser
    • speaker systems
    • full range
    • monitors (floor)
    • subwoofers

    In my musical live Yamaha plays an important role too. I have instruments ranging from the humble recorder to

    • string instruments
    • brass
    • many others, too many to specify here

    Note 1
    Naturally I have specialized mixers from other brands which do an excellent job. Yamaha does not make those, so I have no fields of comparable parameters

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    #Yamaha #instruments #technology #mathematics #physics #brass #trumpet #trombone #saxophone #alt #tenor #bass #sopranino #sopraan #string #piano #bass #cello #doublebass #woodwinds #flute #Audio #PA #console #mixer #speaker #passive #active #amp #compressor #limiter #eq #equalizer #parametric #graphic #analog #digital 🎶 ##Retro #Legacy #current #Analog

  4. #forj #annular #brooch

    Une grande #fibule en #laiton forgée pour finir la journée. En fait c'est vraiment compliqué de forger le laiton. Ça casse tout le temps.

    A large #forged #brass #fibulae to end the day. It's actually really complicated to #forge brass. It breaks all the time.

  5. #forj #blacksmith #cutlery #couteau

    L'un des trois #couteaux de #cuisine de style "ai-deba" que j'ai fini aujourd'hui.
    Il est d'aspect "brut de forge" et conçu pour durer. Le #manche est en peuplier stabilisé et la mitre en orme et laiton

    One of the three #kitchen #knives "ai-deba" style i just finished today.
    It is raw #forged. Handle is made of stabilised #poplar #wood and bolster is elm and #brass

    youtube.com/shorts/L7OHdn9loO0

  6. I was sharing a memory on FB about being disappointed there are so few cimbalom punk bands (OK fair enough lol) and my friend Mitia drew my attention to this old Ukrainian band Perkalaba (Перкалаба) who were active in the early 2000s and 2010s playing kind of rock mixed with Cymbaly and brass
    🤔 🎶
    Not exactly what I was picturing but still fun
    #UkrainianMusic #FolkPunk #IvanoFrankivsk #cimbalom #brass
    youtube.com/watch?v=JdQ7PwsVlf

  7. Plastic narrow shank #tuba mouthpieces for sale in the UK? Smaller sized is better. It's to replace a trombone #mouthpiece because my lips demand extra room. This is for a #serpent and the tuba mouthpiece I'm using plays great but is too heavy for the lead pipe which is just held in place by a bit of cork.

    #brass

  8. Circuit Sculpture Hack Chat - Join us on Wednesday, November 6 at noon Pacific for the Circuit Sculpture Hack Chat with Mohit Bhoi... more: hackaday.com/2019/11/04/circui #circuitsculpture #hackadaycolumns #thehackchat #bending #deadbug #kinetic #pummer #brass #art