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2008-08-07 by Jon

It seems the commercial of which I spoke earlier is actually a Best Buy commercial featuring the Samsung Instinct phone.

OT- Farfisa Compact

2008-08-07 by Mark Wallis

Baby, we could talk all night- but that ain't getting us nowhere..


Hello there, Mello-chumleys,

Would any of you happen to have schematics for a 60s Farfisa Compact organ? The cute one with the octave of grey keys and the hidden valves?

I have one in at the moment for repair and general TLC.

Some documentation would save me a tankful of time and might possibly save YOU from more minced MeatLoaf metaphors.

You know it makes sense.

Love and Scones,

wallis.









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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT- Farfisa Compact

2008-08-07 by jeffc@netaxs.com

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Mark Wallis wrote:

>
> Baby, we could talk all night- but that ain't getting us nowhere..
>
>
> Hello there, Mello-chumleys,
>
> Would any of you happen to have schematics for a 60s Farfisa Compact organ? The cute one with the octave of grey keys and the hidden valves?
>
> I have one in at the moment for repair and general TLC.
>
> Some documentation would save me a tankful of time and might possibly save YOU from more minced MeatLoaf metaphors.
>
> You know it makes sense.
>
> Love and Scones,
>
> wallis.



i got nuthin.
but i bet there is a yahoo group for farfisas that would be helpful.

...jeff [up to his elbows in arp odyssey innards...]

RE: [newmellotrongroup] OT- Farfisa Compact

2008-08-07 by Mark Wallis

Sorted, thanks. A very nice man from the Hamtech forum scanned his Farfisa manual in for me this morning. Gods bless the internet.

How is the Odyssey? I've worked on a couple of those, give me a shout should you get stuck. The MkI is easily one of my very favourite synths. I think the pitchbend knob
seems less alien to Mellotron players..

Best wishes,


msw




________________________________
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: jeffc@netaxs.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:14:10 -0400
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT- Farfisa Compact
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Mark Wallis wrote:
>
>>
>> Baby, we could talk all night- but that ain't getting us nowhere..
>>
>>
>> Hello there, Mello-chumleys,
>>
>> Would any of you happen to have schematics for a 60s Farfisa Compact organ? The cute one with the octave of grey keys and the hidden valves?
>>
>> I have one in at the moment for repair and general TLC.
>>
>> Some documentation would save me a tankful of time and might possibly save YOU from more minced MeatLoaf metaphors.
>>
>> You know it makes sense.
>>
>> Love and Scones,
>>
>> wallis.
>
> i got nuthin.
> but i bet there is a yahoo group for farfisas that would be helpful.
>
> ...jeff [up to his elbows in arp odyssey innards...]
>
>

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OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?

2008-08-07 by Mark Wallis

Just a quickie..


If you don't know about this thing, google it.

I was just wondering if it was actually 'clever' or 'safe' to build a machine 30 miles long that is
actually expected to




create black holes.







in Switzerland, Earth.


Why do I have a REALLY uneasy feeling about this?


MSW
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?

2008-08-07 by Jon

----Please don't take this wrong because it really isn't meant to be a shot, but if you're feeling uneasy, it means that you don't understand black holes. Microscopic black holes carry no threat to the Earth or to you.
I was just wondering if it was actually 'clever' or 'safe' to build a machine 30 miles long that is
actually expected to

create black holes.


in Switzerland, Earth.


Why do I have a REALLY uneasy feeling about this?

RE: [newmellotrongroup] OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?

2008-08-08 by Mark Wallis

No offence taken, Jon. My knowledge of the state of the union as far as the contemporary physics research infrastructure goes is scanty and casually acquired.

No problem at all, m'dear. I just panic when the words 'cosmic catastrophe' appear in an overview of something of this scale. As one does.

The wierd part is that something of this scale isn't regarded as sufficiently newsworthy to be absolutely ubiquitous common knowledge given the sheer magnitude of the gear.
I only found out about the existence of the place yesterday.

I'm not normally given to technophobia by the way. Maybe there's too much Robert Anton Wilson in my head instead of original thought.

..although I really hope we don't end up arc-welding ourselves to the Moon. It would make a rich footnote in some other culture's sci-fi film.



(alien Galactic History student) 'So what happened to them?'

(Galactic History Professor) ' Well, they accidently invented the first really effective Fusion Drive.'

' So, what went wrong?'

'They rammed Mars'

Love & Scones

(fingers crossed, eh?)

x
msw


________________________________
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: jonesalley@cox.net
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:18:56 -0500
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?
>
>
> ----Please don't take this wrong because it really isn't meant to be a shot, but if you're feeling uneasy, it means that you don't understand black holes. Microscopic black holes carry no threat to the Earth or to you.
>
>
>
> I was just wondering if it was actually 'clever' or 'safe' to build a machine 30 miles long that is
> actually expected to
>
> create black holes.
>
>
> in Switzerland, Earth.
>
>
> Why do I have a REALLY uneasy feeling about this?
>
>
>

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT- Farfisa Compact

2008-08-08 by NormLeete@aol.com

Odyssey - wish I could find one (or perhaps an Axxe or a Solus)

First synth was an Axxe - even that was rather good.

Norm


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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?

2008-08-10 by Jon

Short explanation is that a black hole that contains the mass of a few atoms has only the gravitational strength of a few atoms. Gravity's effect at distance diminishes in the same way that audio volume does, as the inverse of the square. If you move twice as far away from the source, the strength of the gravity (or sound, or light) is only one-fourth as strong as it was, if you move four times as far away, the strength of the gravity is only one-sixteenth as strong as it was, eight times as far, one sixty-fourth as strong, and so forth. Thus, a black hole with the mass of a few atoms has a diameter of maybe a trillionth of an inch and the gravitational effects just a thousandth of an inch away from it are so miniscule as to be virtually impossible to measure. That's why there's no threat to us. The LHC may not have had much mention in the commercial media, but us astronomy and physics geeks have been sporting nerd wood for years over it. And curiously enough, the Moon is the result of another planet about the size of Mars arc-welding itself to the infant Earth soon after it was formed, so it wouldn't be the first time!
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?


No offence taken, Jon. My knowledge of the state of the union as far as the contemporary physics research infrastructure goes is scanty and casually acquired.

No problem at all, m'dear. I just panic when the words 'cosmic catastrophe' appear in an overview of something of this scale. As one does.

The wierd part is that something of this scale isn't regarded as sufficiently newsworthy to be absolutely ubiquitous common knowledge given the sheer magnitude of the gear.
I only found out about the existence of the place yesterday.

I'm not normally given to technophobia by the way. Maybe there's too much Robert Anton Wilson in my head instead of original thought.

..although I really hope we don't end up arc-welding ourselves to the Moon. It would make a rich footnote in some other culture's sci-fi film.



(alien Galactic History student) 'So what happened to them?'

(Galactic History Professor) ' Well, they accidently invented the first really effective Fusion Drive.'

' So, what went wrong?'

'They rammed Mars'

Love & Scones

(fingers crossed, eh?)

x
msw


________________________________
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: jonesalley@cox.net
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:18:56 -0500
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?
>
>
> ----Please don't take this wrong because it really isn't meant to be a shot, but if you're feeling uneasy, it means that you don't understand black holes. Microscopic black holes carry no threat to the Earth or to you.
>
>
>
> I was just wondering if it was actually 'clever' or 'safe' to build a machine 30 miles long that is
> actually expected to
>
> create black holes.
>
>
> in Switzerland, Earth.
>
>
> Why do I have a REALLY uneasy feeling about this?
>
>
>

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT- Farfisa Compact

2008-08-10 by gino wong

I was actually thinking of letting my Oddy go I prefer my Axxe to it
on the whole these days. Too bad I am so far away. I am kind've
coveting a CMS modular, a small one with a voltage processor and
sequencer would be like a super Arp

On 8/8/08, NormLeete@aol.com <NormLeete@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Odyssey - wish I could find one (or perhaps an Axxe or a Solus)
>
> First synth was an Axxe - even that was rather good.
>
> Norm
>
>
>
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