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Issue 88

Issue 88Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #88! The day this magazine goes live, July 1st, marks the halfway point in 2019. Having had a birthday recently, it certainly does seem that the months and years...

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20th Century Classical Music – the “Navel Gazin...

Issue 88QUIBBLES AND BITS

In the world of Classical Music, the end of the 19th Century brought with it the end of the “Romantic Era”, which had followed on from the “Classical Period” after the...

Is Audio Seasonal?

Issue 88THE AUDIO CYNIC

I’ve been a salesman or worked with salespeople most of my working life, and one thing I know is that as a group, they work hard. They have to. It’s...

TONE!

Issue 88MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

A recent conversation ‘twixt Uncle Bill and me: Me: This is great bass playing to me:   TONE! Bill: Yup. Me: I hear many bass players who have shitty tone, and if you...

Munich, Part 4

Issue 88FEATURED

[Previous installments of our Munich coverage have appeared in Copper issues #85, 86, and 87—Ed.] We’ve talked about “the Munich Show”, meaning the High End, as the big show is properly known, and we’ve talked...

Fanny Mendelssohn

Issue 88SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

If Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) had lived at a time and place when a woman could reasonably pursue a career in composition, Felix might be known as “the younger brother of...

Deep Purple

Issue 88Sucategory_OFF THE CHARTS

Deep Purple was originally called Roundabout because its founder, drummer Chris Curtis, planned to have its personnel be established musicians from other groups, who would come and go like cars...

Here Comes The Yet Another Son

Issue 88TWISTED SYSTEMS

First appeared in Goldmine Magazine, edited for Copper. I recently spent 24 hours in Liverpool with my daughter Samantha on a dad/daughter Beatles visit. I had been to Liverpool several times while Twisted...

The Fire

Issue 88VINTAGE WHINE

I’m going to deviate from the standard Vintage Whine topics just this once—because just as important as the heritage of innovation and genius in the creation of audio gear is the heritage...

Half a Year, Half a Year, Half a Year Gone

Issue 88

Welcome to Copper #88! The day this magazine goes live, July 1st, marks the halfway point in 2019. Having had a birthday recently, it certainly does seem that the months...

THE Show 2019, Part 2

Issue 88FEATURED

Part 1 of Jan Montana's report appeared in Copper #87---Ed.> I don't know anything about modern analog equipment, but I'd rather spend money on a TriangleArt turntable than most of...

Napa

Issue 88MUSIC'AL NOTES

“Hi Dad. How would you like to be my sous chef? I’m doing a charity event in Napa and I’ll need a assistant.” Ilan, my son, was the winner of Top...