Music sound are the best two ingredients
Music sound are two of the things that started my life and have followed me to this day.
I have a thing about music and sound and when I was only seven (which was sixty years ago) I would take all the washing up bowls that my mother had and set them up like a drum kit. I would then use two of her knitting needles as drumsticks and would “play” the bowls like a pro!
Early day
It is funny how life turns around in a circle and who would have thought that when I tried to become a drummer and then picked up my dad’s old Spanish guitar that I would still be very interested in music and the sound of the music sixty-seven years later.
It all seems like yesterday in a way and those childhood memories are still fresh in my mind. I can still feel the frustration of not having a bass drum at that time and I would really bang my foot on the flat cardboard box that I had but never was able to get the box to sound right and that was the start of my interest in the “sound” of things.
The teens
I was playing with different guitars and even made my own reverb sheet using a sheet of steel plate. The plate was six feet in length by two feet in width and I mounted it in a wooden frame with each corner suspended by coil springs. I had found that a telephone handset worked well to drive and pick up the signals to and from the guitar so again this was another experiment in the “art of sound”
As I progressed in years I became my able to try many different amplifier and guitars and also was able to become involved with the use of a keyboard. The keyboard gave many different sounds and so increased my knowledge and understanding of how and why certain sounds work within certain parameters to aid a musical performance.
Later years
The passion has never left me and I have always had a string of musical instruments and another string of Hi-fi items always around me. Some of the items have been very expensive because it seems as the years have slipped by, the cost of new components seems to have increased at a much faster pace than anything else has.
I have been able to experiment and test many of the new components available today and I am always getting surprised at just how far a person is willing to go to try and hear that additional sound. Unfortunately that sound sometimes just does not exist well to that person’s ears but to other ears then maybe yes. We are getting to such a stage in product development it makes me wonder just how far it can go and what we shall see and hear in the next ten years but it is all good fun!
The video
I have attached this video which is a quick recap of my story and I hope that you like this music sound blog and if you have then please leave me some comments and aIso share with your friends by using the buttons below - thank you.
https://youtu.be/LYkY2iTgv_k