Copper


See You in September

Issue 92Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #92! With the last gasp of summer comes the start of school years, Labor Day outings and gatherings...and with any luck you won't be haunted by the...

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Papa’s Got a Real Mixed Bag

Issue 92TO BE DETERMINED

Rickie Lee Jones – Kicks I have loved Rickie Lee Jones from day one; though the truth be known, early on probably more for the fact that she was the hot blond...

Clara Wieck Schumann

Issue 92SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

September 13, 2019, marks the 200th birthday of pianist and composer Clara Wieck Schumann. The bicentennial year has already seen a number of recordings of her works, both on their own...

A Visit to a Linkwitz Open House

Issue 92FEATURED

As the second day of the 2019 California Audio Show was taking place, a smaller, more intimate demonstration of the reproduction of recorded music was unfolding across the Bay in...

The Wildweeds

Issue 92MUSIC TO MY EARS

“I’m listening to WDRC BIG D in Hartford!” In 1967 WDRC, a Hartford pop station (What’s Doing Round Conn.) 1360 on your AM dial, was running a promotional radio contest. Every hour the...

Journey

Issue 92OFF THE CHARTS

Journey didn’t start out as a stadium band roaring out power ballads. It germinated in the progressive rock scene, an outgrowth of the bands Santana and Frumious Bandersnatch. The new group,...

Drive, He Said Part 1

Issue 92VINTAGE WHINE

Vintage Whine has previously looked at the micro-mechanics of record playback in the 9-part series, 50 Ways to Read a Record, which appeared in Copper issues #65-74 (and sorry, I’m not linking to all nine...

The Sound Of Music

Issue 92QUIBBLES AND BITS

The entirety of the field of Philosophy arises from two fundamental questions – the Adam and Eve of Philosophy if you like. Adam asks “What is real?”, while Eve asks...

Back to Basics

Issue 92THE AUDIO CYNIC

I had a minor-league epiphany, courtesy of Waylon Jennings and my seven-month-old granddaughter. I sang in choirs and choruses for many years, floating between baritone and bass depending upon the...

What Made Woodstock So Different?

Issue 92MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

In several years of so very many noteworthy 50th anniversaries, two stand out: the July 20th, 1969 landing of humans on the Moon, and the Woodstock music festival. I admit, what made it...

“Who the hell is Allan Pettersson?”

Issue 92TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Not my words. Just the title of a 1974 TV interview with Pettersson (1911–80). The simple answer? Pettersson was the most significant Swedish symphonic composer of the late 20th century....

A Turntable of my Own, Part 3

Issue 92IN MY ROOM

Copper#90 ; Part 2, in Copper #91---Ed.> All of the brass points/receptor cups were designed to have cored-out cups so they could be filled with a lead/elastomer matrix. Using a...

End of Summer Musings

Issue 92TWISTED SYSTEMS

How fast can the summer go? It seems like it lasts all of 2 weeks. So here I am, having returned to my renovated NYC apartment finally listening to my...

My First Visit to China

Issue 92MUSIC'AL NOTES

[This article was first edited by Art Dudley and published by him in the May/June 2002 issue of  Listener magazine; I thank Art for his help. Originally titled, “In a Shanghai Speaker...