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Imaginations Real

Issue 111Opening Salvo

(With a tip of the hat to Dave Davies for the title) This issue’s cover: Prince (1958 – 2016). One of the greatest rock songwriters, performers, producers, guitar players and...

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Breathing Restored Life Into a Classic Pipe Org...

Issue 111DEEP DIVE

Calvary Episcopal Church was founded in 1836 and is part of the Parish of Calvary – St. George’s in New York City. A fixture in the Gramercy Park area for...

For the Record: Restoring a Vintage Disc Cuttin...

Issue 111REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

A customer recently imported a vintage Presto 75A disk recording lathe from the US, with a view to cutting records in Europe. [J.I. is based in Europe – Ed.] He quickly...

Where Cool Water Flows

Issue 111PARTING SHOT

The Cart Creek Bridge at the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area in the eastern corner of Utah. The water is part of the Green River.

Waiting for the Black Cadillac, Redux

Issue 111MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

Who knows what’s behind our taste? A record that I think persists in its genius (My Life In the Bush of Ghosts) you may find abstract and boring. And that’s...

Tracy Chapman, Redux

Issue 111OFF THE CHARTS

Some pop stars wear the glamour of fame and fortune, like a suit they’ve longed to try on since they first picked up a guitar or a mic. Keeping the...

Interpreting Purcell, Redux

Issue 111SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) lived at an expansive time in British music history, when artistic freedom had been restored after a generation of repressive Puritan control. Somehow this allowed Purcell to...

Ears in the Clouds

Issue 111AUDIO ANTHROPOLOGY

As anyone who's heard one knows, they weren't kidding. From Audio, December 1960. Maybe not strictly audio-related, but what a stunning cover, and we've sure heard plenty of this gear...

John Prine – In Spite of Himself

Issue 111MUSIC TO MY EARS

I did a Copper piece on John Prine a year ago (Issue 80). However his passing on April 7 brought me back to the closet. John was a friend to all Americans and...

Breathing Restored Life Into a Classic Pipe Org...

Issue 111

Calvary Episcopal Church was founded in 1836 and is part of the Parish of Calvary - St. George’s in New York City. A fixture in the Gramercy Park area for...

Pond Hopping with the Stranglers

Issue 111TRUE-LIFE ROCK TALES

The heat is coming on and the pipes are clanking. It is a comforting sound. Across the street is Carnegie Hall. You can see the entrance by looking through the...

The Incalculable Influence of Kraftwerk

Issue 111FRANKLY SPEAKING

Kraftwerk’s influence on today’s pop music is so pervasive, the band is so historically important, and so much has been written about them already that doing an introduction here almost...

Being an Audio Forum Moderator, Part Two

Issue 111FEATURED

This is the second in our series of articles giving a behind-the-scenes look at how a forum operates. I will start this installment out by being perfectly honest: A forum...

Italian Progressive Rock, Part Two: Le Orme

Issue 111FEATURED

Le Orme (“The Footprints”) is one of the most successful and prolific of the Italian progressive rock bands. From their inception in 1966 through the last decade, they have continued to...

In Memoriam: Victor Goldstein

Issue 111INDUSTRY NEWS

The audio world lost one of its most pre-eminent, wonderful, colorful, passionate people with the passing of Victor Goldstein on May 5. I got to know him well over the...

Multichannel Hall of Fame Mk II

Issue 111TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

(Last time we offered overviews of several recording labels that led the way to a glorious high-res, multichannel future for classical music. Some persevered, some did not. Here’s the rest...