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Worlds First Drum Machine in Pedal Form!

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lukylutte said:
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Plus it's the drum set I voted for who got most votes....
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I missed it, which one won?

Downunderwonder said:
I don't recall production being in Hong Kong. Does that mean DHL is sending a van to deepest darkest China to fetch the "international" orders?
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Hong Kong, as I'm sure you know, is one of the largest trans-shipment centres in the world. The first story I worked on as a reporter was on the world's largest container building (only the Boeing plant is bigger outer dimensions but those planes waste a lot of space that can be used for floors – so the building I was in was the largest by useable floor space...

Anyway, for all you people champing at the bit with stuff "stuck" in HK, you'd be amazed at logistics involved and things get trans-shipped quite speedily here.

ArtechnikA said:
NOT drawing any parallels, but maybe you haven't read the SGD Lutherie thread - for an example of how, like Heisenberg's Cat, things can be shipped and non-shipped at the same time...
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You're mixing up Werner Heisenberg's Cut, with the cat that belonged to Erwin Schrödinger.
So it's: Heisenberg's Uncertainty, Schrödinger's Cat.


+1 for Adam starting the BB Users' Thread




I'm not sweating BB arrival. I've got food in my belly, a roof over my head, clothes on my back, a bass... and a buttload of practicing to do...
 
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Feral Feline said:
I missed it, which one won?



Hong Kong, as I'm sure you know, is one of the largest trans-shipment centres in the world. The first story I worked on as a reporter was on the world's largest container building (only the Boeing plant is bigger outer dimensions but those planes waste a lot of space that can be used for floors – so the building I was in was the largest by useable floor space...

Anyway, for all you people champing at the bit with stuff "stuck" in HK, you'd be amazed at logistics involved and things get trans-shipped quite speedily here.



You're mixing up Werner Heisenberg's Cut, with the cat that belonged to Erwin Schrödinger.
So it's: Heisenberg's Uncertainty, Schrödinger's Cat.


+1 for Adam starting the BB Users' Thread




I'm not sweating BB arrival. I've got food in my belly, a roof over my head, clothes on my back, a bass... and a buttload of practicing to do...
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Hey, a man on the ground! What's the deal do you think? Why would a palletload of prepaid, addressed small packages simply stop moving, if in fact they left the factory?

I gather there is some kind of agent involved, but someone issued the DHL numbers, so one would think DHL got custody at that point, or DHL were responsible for picking them up from wherever the agent had got them shifted up to then.

Alternatively, some 3rd party shipper has failed?
 
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ArtechnikA, if you're uncertain...

Did you look in the box?

Just look in the box.

Can't look in the box if the box hasn't arrived yet.

Downunderwonder said:
Hey, a man on the ground! What's the deal do you think? Why would a palletload of prepaid, addressed small packages simply stop moving, if in fact they left the factory?...
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This might be why...

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Can you spot the BBs?

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Pics from Carolyn's & Phil's Big Trip




My earlier query still hasn't been addressed...
From the BB survey, which additional drumset type won?
 
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Feral Feline said:
ArtechnikA, if you're uncertain...

Did you look in the box?

Just look in the box.

Can't look in the box if the box hasn't arrived yet.



This might be why...

ViewImg?maxw=0&maxh=0&dbid=EcCpXmFTN3011620.jpg

Can you spot the BBs?

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HK+Containor+Port.jpg
HK+Container+port+downloaded.jpg

Pics from Carolyn's & Phil's Big Trip




My earlier query still hasn't been addressed...
From the BB survey, which additional drumset type won?
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Surely you're taking "shipping" far too literally? These are meant to be coming via express air courier. To me that means a DHL light truck or van scoots a pallet from packaging to nearest DHL hub where they get sorted to airplanes.
 
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Sorry, wasn't paying attention, WTFudgsicle is D&B anyway? You want D&B, take a normal or electronic drumkit soundset and process the @#$% out of it yourself.

I was hoping for pots and pans. much more useful to me. Hopefully it, too, will find its way to the BB eventually.
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Airport? Same ship(ment), different isle.

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I think the BBs are on the pallet being towed by the little cargo-tote in the lower right corner of the pic on the right.

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The cargo terminal is on the far left of the man-made isle (the "reclaimed land" being of great annoyance of the Invalid Link Removed who had to move around to another bay, only to be evicted by evilDisney-built-at-taxpayers'-expense, while Disney keeps the profits (yes, some spinoff $$$ to the local economy)... But I digress...
 
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Sorry, the D'nB notification came with tracking email...

THE WINNING 11th DRUM SET
The results of the survey are:
Phill Collins's Drum Set: 23.46%
Drum 'n' Bass: 30.22%
Ballad: 10.63%
Acoustic-electronic: 13.67%
Pots and Pans: 4.4%
Other: 17.62%

So congratulations to the Drum ‘n’ Bass voters -- this will be the 11th drum set available ONLY to you guys! We’ll email you all with a link to download it once it’s ready.
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So congratulations to the Drum ‘n’ Bass voters -- this will be the 11th drum set available ONLY to you guys! We’ll email you all with a link to download it once it’s ready.
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No wonder I wasn't abreast of the kit situation. Only those with a tracking # are privy to such bad tidings.
Well at least I won't have to put up with chitty D&B crappola taking up space on my BB's memory chip. I'd rather the Phil Collins kit won than D&B, and I hate Phil Collins. D&B is to music what fake margarine is to butter.

:meh: Meh. If you like D&B... well, whatever pleases your palate.

/rant

Hope you tracking # people report your pallet pleaser BBs ASAP, pretty please?
 

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