Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

This has the ring of truth to it. It is now the official story.

I have documentation but it can only be shown in my secure bunker, and discussed using the Cone of Silence.

 

[BklynKen]

Just so you drive friendly and learn the local rules (unwritten as well). Traffic has really gone to hell the past few years.

Also, realize that we also have a growing [lack of] water problem here.

But you have some great breweries, namely Jester King and Pinthouse Pizza.

 

[Gaolee]

I have documentation but it can only be shown in my secure bunker, and discussed using the Cone of Silence.

More proof of the story's truth, if that was even necessary. I'm completely convinced now. Also, in hiding, but that's another subject for another thread.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

L’Industrielle des Telephones was a very short-lived company involved in an attempted coup of the French Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in 1938. Self-styled revolutionaries ran around with miniature guillotines cutting telephone cords at businesses. The coup attempt fizzled when irate wine merchants and sommeliers refused to sell to the perpetrators.

The coup core did have technical chops! To get more bandwidth per wire, they used mics with 1/10th the frequency range of the typical carbon mics used in phone systems. They used ribbon mics to improve call quality within the narrower spectrum. They then used frequency modulated multiplexing to allow 10 calls in the same frequency space serving one call. There were minor cross-talk issues.

Sadly, the core group had zero manufacturing expertise, and the mics tended to develop floppy ribbons as they aged, along with loose or saggy transformers. They also require lubrication (coconut oil recommended) of the ribbon mount hinge points or they squeak and wear out.

The seven surviving mics were owned by the children of the seven men and women who led the coup. Two are now in museums, three are in the hands of private collectors, one was acquired by the Surete’ for reasons unknown, and one was stolen and a bounty offered for the head of whoever possesses it. You’re a brave man to post in public about this!

whoa...where did you get this info? fascinating stuff..

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

love that section (starts in C right?).....more involved than the guitar solo itself...

G....just checked...

 

[PillO]

I don’t, either, but I do question their apparently letting it go for 40 years.

Doesn't matter what you or I think. It only matters what a court thinks.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

whoa...where did you get this info? fascinating stuff..

See my post about documentation.

 

[Inky13]

Well, yeah, but it fired a poison dart when he hit a G#-or an Ab. I forget which.

Blofeld was felled by a blow from a harmonica?

 

[GonePlaid]

Blofeld was felled by a blow from a harmonica?

Well played. [the harmonica too]

 

[Gaolee]

Blofeld was felled by a blow from a harmonica?

Yes, but it was Sloved Dovewing's harmonica, not Jacques Bond's.

 

[GBassNorth]

We haven't discussed ribbon microphones for a while. So, it's time. I made a lowball offer on a weird French one that looks like a green bullet, only bigger and squashed. It sounds all quacky and awful, so it's going to get repaired. But, in the interest in reviving the fact that this is sometimes the Thunderbird and Ribbon Mic and Muscle Car and Subaru Club, here are some pictures of the mic. The ribbon appears saggy, which might be the reason it sounds awful. It may also be due to a crappy transformer or who knows what all else that can go wrong in a ribbon microphone. I like ribbon mics, as you all know, but I especially like cardioid ribbon mics. They are oddities, which means I can't resist when something like this comes along for cheap enough.View attachment 3458454 View attachment 3458455 View attachment 3458456 View attachment 3458457 View attachment 3458459

I cannot find any internet information about it at all, which means it probably doesn't exist. I bought a hologram of a mic! If anybody has an inkling of what it is, say so. Or make up a bunch of stuff and I'll believe it's all true.

Looks unique. There might be somebody over here who can help...
Vintage microphones & studio gear

 

[Gaolee]

Looks unique. There might be somebody over here who can help...
Vintage microphones & studio gear

That looks interesting, but it's Facebook, and I don't have an account there these days.

 

[Count Bassie]

L’Industrielle des Telephones was a very short-lived company involved in an attempted coup of the French Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in 1938. Self-styled revolutionaries ran around with miniature guillotines cutting telephone cords at businesses. The coup attempt fizzled when irate wine merchants and sommeliers refused to sell to the perpetrators.

The coup core did have technical chops! To get more bandwidth per wire, they used mics with 1/10th the frequency range of the typical carbon mics used in phone systems. They used ribbon mics to improve call quality within the narrower spectrum. They then used frequency modulated multiplexing to allow 10 calls in the same frequency space serving one call. There were minor cross-talk issues.

Sadly, the core group had zero manufacturing expertise, and the mics tended to develop floppy ribbons as they aged, along with loose or saggy transformers. They also require lubrication (coconut oil recommended) of the ribbon mount hinge points or they squeak and wear out.

The seven surviving mics were owned by the children of the seven men and women who led the coup. Two are now in museums, three are in the hands of private collectors, one was acquired by the Surete’ for reasons unknown, and one was stolen and a bounty offered for the head of whoever possesses it. You’re a brave man to post in public about this!

Lol, wrong thread...

 

[Count Bassie]

Just shipped a 32" G8R and have a 32" NR in the pipeline. My avatar is a 32. 30" is also an option.

We are gonna speak by the end of the year.

 

[RedVee]

Link?

Sorry to anti FB people

 

[PillO]

Sorry to anti FB people

Had a quick look. Everyone is telling him to bring them.

 

[Engle]

love that section (starts in C right?).....more involved than the guitar solo itself...

Yeah the keys play the riff and then he switches to bass and alters it. I don’t even hear the guitar solo during that part because the bass line is so cool!

 

[Engle]

That looks interesting, but it's Facebook, and I don't have an account there these days.

Just make a fake FB account. It’s not like they will shut it down.

 

[Engle]

My buddy got a new compressor for his shop:

 

[dagrev]

Ahem.

Yeah, telling me to not go there isn't going to do much...

Clearly!