Making Music

Here's some classics.

Some standards


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Frank Sinatra

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One of Elvis's

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Some Everly Brothers

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Some BeeGees

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Cyndi Lauper (with part of Miles Davis' trumpet solo from his version).

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No golf again today, course snowbound, so apart from putting up our new bird feeder. I've been looking for things to do. So I gave my two jukebox wallboxes in the front room a bit of a "run out." I'm a firm believer in "use is the best form of preventative maintenance," when it comes to old-fashioned leaf and solonoid switches. These date from the 1970s and I've had them for about ten years. They give one play for an old 10p and seven plays for an old 50p coin.
The mechanics are like an old-fashioned push-button dial-up telephone.

This adapter converts the pulses..



To select the mp3 on a dedicated i-tunes playlist, on the appropriate second-hand 3rd generation i-Pod. I have to swop over all the quick release connections when changing wallboxes. But it isn't a problem.



They play through my forty-year-old tuner amp in our forty year-old Danish wall unit and near fifty year-old Goodmans speakers.

The titles are on "Toblerone" shaped lozenges, rotated by a couple knobs each side of the boxes.

I've photographed all the titles, which if anyone is still reading this, might prompt some memories. Some are You-Tube downloads, some are ancient file-sharing mp3s and others, rips from my own CDs and vinyl albums.

The different pages are "colour coordinated." Brown for Motown & Soul, Green for Classic Pop & Country, Blue for Jazz Standards. You type them in on a pro-forma, choosing, style, text font, colour and print them off.

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I've a third magazine from a non-functioning box I bought cheaply, they just pull out and clip in. This was to facilitate the change of title cards when new records were being put into the carousels. Unfortunately the notched plastic belt that turned the pages was broken. They're made of "unobtainium." I had to buy a new magazine from a supplier in America and get them to just post me the belt as the cost of sending the whole magazine would have been far too expensive.

This with a third i-Pod gives me another 160 selections.






Of course I could just choose one of the few thousand mp3s from the stick in the side of the TV in that room and play them through its soundbar. "But it's not the same."

 

I watched a pretty emotive film the other night on TV, titled "You Before Me" it features Emilia Clarke, "she of the articulating eyebrows," worth a look if you haven't seen it.

Anyway, part of this song is featured in it. Maybe it was the "moment" as although I'd hears it before I didn't think it anything special, so Iooked up the video on YouTube and was surprised it had over two and a half billion hits.
So I thought I'd give it a go. Mine needs a bit of work.

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