old lps come to life again

paul motians record "psalm" had sat in my basement for 15 years together with a couple of hundred other lps. the house i live in has no room for the turntable. the other day i thought i had found the solution. a box labelled terratec arrived in the mail containing a small box that could digitalize as well as amplifie the signal from a turntable in such a way that my computer would accept the music. the a-d box was nice, but the software just wouldnt start. i gave it up and downloaded something called lprecord in stead. took me the best of 2 days but at least 3 records made it to my cd player. the records were: the mentioned motian recording, keith jarrets bop be from 1978 and a record by the flutist hariprasad charusia made in india in 1968. not many, but a good start. i love to let the old memories flow almost as much as i love the sound of the pick up entering the vinyl groove. of course i did not edit that away. would you?

back in the 1960ties Semie Moseley built a guitar he called Mosrite Ventures. Yesterday, 50 years later, I had the oportunity to try one for the first time. A friend down the street had bought one from Califorinia and at last it arrived after a long journey over the ocean. The guitar is full of history. The design is strange, and judging from its bruises and scratches it has been played a lot. It is a bit big and heavy, but very vell balanced. It did not feel like a strange new thing but like a guitar I had played many times before. Actually it felt much better holding and playing it than my own ESP Telecaster. The sound is open and has a singing quality to it. An open C chord sounds great and single notes high up on the E-string when played through a clean amp sings better than most guitars at any guitar store. The frets are very low and invite more to legato playing than string bending. Go here http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/000231.html to read the history behind the Mosrite.