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Cracked a tooth in half over the holidays. Had to go in to get some temporary work until a permanent solutions is found.
Brought along my Fuji X-100 and asked the dentist if it was ok to take a few shots for my 365. She was intrigued as no one has ever asked her such a request. Subsequent visit may produce more photos. That's the life of a 365er'
3/365 0.82% done
Carte de visite by an anonymous photographer. A man poses next to a scientific instrument of unknown origins. It is housed in a tapered glass container topped by a spool and hand crank. A right angle and compass propped up against the container obscures a word, perhaps “patent,” which suggest this may be a patent model. If true, the man may be its inventor.
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"I blurred at once the map of humdrum,
by splashing colours like a potion;
I showed upon the dish of jelly the slanted cheekbones of the ocean.
Upon the scales of metal fishes
I read the new lips’ attitude.
But could you
now
perform a nocturne
Just playing on a drainpipe flute?"
--- V. Mayakovsky, 1913
Several minutes random doodle just out of blue ... and it looks like some kind of steampunk musical instrument eventually and I remembered this spectacular poetry in theme.
7/15/2017 Locals playing maracas and guiro at Steeplechase Pier. Sony a7. Konica Hexanon AR 40mm 1:1.8.
Posted for the Macro Mondays group's weekly theme of "Back To School".
You can find a wider angle view of the instruments in the comments below.
HMM to all in the group and a big thank you to anyone who takes the time and trouble to view, comment on and/or fave this one. :)
Looking for a subject for 115 of 120 pictures in 2020 - Ways to weigh or measure, I was going to take a picture of a set of scales I have then decided to focus on 'measure' and came up with this picture.
Whilst clearing out the garage I came across this rather shiny guage holder which I recall my father had fitted to some of his cars. There was never enough gauges in the car for him! The hunt was then on for a couple of gauges to put in it and as luck would have it I found one of his old oil pressure gauges, the one on the left and a volt meter, one which I used to have in a previous car. Luckily they were both 'Smiths' and fitted the surround nicely.
Rather than languishing in a forgotten corner of the garage they now adorn a shelf in my 'man cave' bringing back happy memories of times gone by.
Left gauge measures engine oil pressure, right gauge car electrical voltage.
Original string instrument from Balkans called Tamburica. A lot of people all around Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Hungary enjoy calm and warm sounds that this instrument produces.
Deneb feat. Ramesh Shotham - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg - 22.02.2019, weiter Fotos unter:
www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos19/deneb/Index.htm
Besetzung:
Gudrun Plaichinger: voc, vln, fx
Georg Degenhardt: ney, fula, dombak, fx
Ramesh Shotham: tavil, ghatam, kanjira
Thomas Kleinschmitt: synth
Walter Schulz: keys, fx
Tobias Ott: perc
Thanks to Dennis Jarvis for the use of his pileated woodpecker photo. More precisely, it's a sculpture of a pileated woodpecker at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
I guess everyone spotted the bird; did anyone notice that it is a sculpture rather than a real bird?
Took a trip to Richmond, Yorkshire and on the way back to the bus we dropped into a museum on military history (Green Howards Museum) and found this collection of instruments.
cologne - 22.04.2013
Sometimes I wish I had another job. Just imagine you are an instrument maker! You would have something that you can touch with your hands. You could smell the wood and the paint, and after some day or weeks you can take the instrument and play it... It's not a fuckin IT project with lots of people who are nervous and unfriendly. It's not all about money or the best price... You don't have to bid in a bidding procedure, you just have to manufacture the instrument and if there is someone who likes the sound you can sell what you've done for a real price. It's a nice imagination... Is there an instrument maker out there?
I love precision instruments like this pair of surgical scissors - gold plated handles and a Noir finish make them an
interesting, if challenging macro subject. I thought the highlights along the handles had blown out, hence red colour, then I realised I was wearing a red shirt which is reflected in the handles.
A man demonstrates traditional Maori musical instruments, including a flute and a conch shell, in Mitai Maori Village in Fairy Springs, Rotorua, New Zealand. (Oct. 21, 2022)
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Piano-harp "Calderarpa", Luigi Caldera (Turin, 1889)
Collection Musee du Palais Lascaris, Nice
Luigi Caldera, whose full name was Andrea Luigi Caldera (dates unknown), was an engineer in Turin, Italy who collaborated with various piano-makers on musical instruments. During the 1880s, Caldera worked with Giovanni Racca, a piano-maker of Bologna, Italy, to develop a form of keyed harp that he called the 'Calderarpa'. Its name clearly originated in a combination of his surname with the word 'arpa , which is of course Italian for 'harp'. Caldera first patented his invention in Italy in 1,886 (Italian Patent No. 20.950, December 31, 1886), and then obtained two patents for it in the United States, the first being No. 382,028 on May 1, 1888 (filed June 30, 1887), and a subsequent version granted as No. 395,543 on January 1, 1889 (filed August 1, 1888). In both American patents, Caldera stated that he was then a resident of London. He is the only known inventor of a keyed harp to procure trans-Atlantic protection for his work. The Calderarpa was exhibited at the Italian Exposition at London in 1888, where it was awarded a 'Diploma di 2a classe,' and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, where it received a silver medal. A 'newly- perfected' version was played for the time in a concert held in conjunction with a banquet in Turin in 1891. This is the last known record of the instrument's development or display.
The keyed harp, a stringed musical instrument in the shape of an upright harp to which a keyboard is attached, has origins back to the clavicytherium of Renaissance times. Also known as a harp-piano (German: Harfenklavier: French: harpe a clavier), it has often been the object of description by both musical theorists and organologists, as well as having been constructed in numerous versions over time by makers in multiple European countries and the United States. Perhaps the best-known builder was Johann Christian Dietz of Paris, whose Claviharpe was introduced in 1813 and made until around 1890 through a succession of his son's and grandson's firms. The musical goal of the instrument was to obtain the sound quality of a harp that could be played by a keyboard rather than by the hands. The tone was characteristically mild and suitable for chamber music, rather than concert use, although some inventors tried, unsuccessfully, to make keyed harps with the capability of greater volume and strength that could substitute for a harp in orchestras.
The zenith of the keyed harp occurred in the nineteenth century, after which time interest in the instrument died away, and today it is considered obsolete. The keyed harp was developed with playing action either plucking the strings, as in the harpsichord, or by striking them, as in the piano. The goal of Caldera's invention, however, was to more closely emulate the human fingers in the playing of harps by devising an action that employed a mechanical finger moving up against the strings, and then rubbing sidewise past them, rather than plucking or striking. Very few of his instruments are known, so how many variants he produced is uncertain.
The Musee du Palais Lascaris instrument is the only known surviving Calderarpa on display in a museum; another is in storage in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and one other example exists in a dealer's private collection. While most keyed harps were built with the intention that they would be placed against a wall, with the performer's back to the listener and the strings exposed, the Calderarpa at the Palais Lascaris was clearly designed to be a free-standing instrument with a solid wooden back to its case, where the keyboard is situated, so that the sound could be projected forward to an audience opposite the player. In addition, for visual aesthetic reasons, the strings are backed by a cloth scrim that is painted with angels. It is that 'reverse front' side then, that received architectural cabinetry, including columns, gilding, carvings, and other decorative elements. The date of 1889 stencilled on the upper support beam is apparently a construction date, not a patent date
ODC-Tied Up
This is an instrument cable Stu got for his Double-Bass. He keeps his little amp inside it.
... Il n'est pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre... À méditer...
Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine à Paris (www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/musee)
Depuis 1971 le siège de l'université de Paris V René Descartes se situe 12 rue de l'école de Médecine, dans les locaux de l'ancienne Faculté de médecine, créée en 1803 et installée dans les bâtiments du collège et de l'Académie de chirurgie.
Au deuxième étage du bâtiment, dans une salle construite en 1905, se trouve le Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine.
Ses collections, les plus anciennes d'Europe, ont été réunies par le doyen Lafaye au XVIIIe siècle, puis s'y est ajouté un important ensemble de pièces qui couvre les différentes branches de l'art opératoire jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle. On peut aussi y découvrir quelques rares trousses de médecins et de chirurgiens ainsi que des instruments de physiologie.