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    Posted: January 28 2013 at 10:31


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2013 at 22:27
Wow. This will tremendously helpful to me (as my knowledge of anything remotely technical is piss).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2013 at 01:57
Oh, gawd, ... that's a lot of stuff! Quite the affair!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2013 at 02:10
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2013 at 02:16
How long did it take you to compile all this, Gerard?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2013 at 03:31
Amazing, a great piece of work Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2013 at 07:07
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

How long did it take you to compile all this, Gerard?
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I had been toying with the idea in my head for quite some time and mentally collecting the information I knew, but before I started writing I thought that it would be quite a short article with just a few basic comments on each instrument. When I started searching for the pictures and a few more details to complement what I already knew I learnt many things I did not know and the thing got longer and longer, it was great fun working on it Tongue
Let's say that from the moment I started writing and collecting pictures until I posted it a few weeks and some sleepless nights have passed LOL

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2013 at 07:23
Excellent, fascinating and unique blog. Well done. brilliant job. I look forward to browsing this from time to time. 
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Holy smokes, well done.  I loved the keyboard section which I was at least somewhat familiar with.  Once I realized that you went into the other instruments, I realized 'I've got to get back to work'.  Let's just say that I know what I'm reading tonight after the family goes to bed.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2013 at 21:16
Man, great article, Gerard.  I know what kind of stuff I'm saving up my money for now LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 06:34
Emersom definitely played the organ upside down. Or at least with him underneath it from behind. Whiich is what he says  here. (from the floor)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 07:26
Thanks Jim,

Not being English perhaps the expression 'upside-down' is not really the correct one, I meant this



Should I have said 'from behind', 'flipped over' or something else? or I can add the picture so people will get what I meant, I have this one and i think that also some of his knife-stabbing.

In any case it's a good suggestion to include a reference to Emerson's spinning piano, I'l do an edit in the piano entry, I have pictures already Tongue

And I'm of course open to remarks, corrections or criticisms, during my research I found contradictory information regarding certain subjects and at some point I had to choose for the version which seemed most logical or reliable, but there can certainly be mistakes and if anyone finds one I'm happy to edit.
 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:12
Spinning piano, Emerson's abuse of the L-100 and a new pic in the keytar entry added Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:13
I thought what you wrote was fine.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:47
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2013 at 09:21
New entry added for the Octoban drum toms
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2013 at 11:21
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I thought what you wrote was fine.


I think what he wrote was more than fine - now I realise it was a reference to the generalised L100 abuse, as opposed to what I thought he meant, I have removed the post as promised

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2013 at 23:15
Just wanted to say this is a great post.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2013 at 11:09
Nice!!! 

There are a few things that could be added though: fretless basses, such as Gary Willis' bass, en Percy Jones, and the double necks that Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson used in the 70's
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