The NACA Music, Art & General Creativity Thread

[briantrumpet]

Brian's ebay find looks pretty good, the main issue is you don't have anyway of knowing (in a lot of the listings) whether there are any significant audio issues or speaker buzz if they've been treated badly.

Ultimately you need to decide what your budget is - and as Brian said, you normally get a decent price for resale if you decide later to get rid of them.

There were lots of them at around that price, so should be possible to choose a reliable seller. FWIW, they work more than passable as keyboard amps too, and vocals reproduce decently too.

 

[briantrumpet]

Notahippo

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No more guesses? Will reveal tomorrow if not.

 

[AndyRM]

Taller and older than it looks. Pretty sure I've seen it, or a similar one.

2,000 BC? Greek. Has a specific style/cultural name but I forget what it is.

 

[briantrumpet]

Taller and older than it looks. Pretty sure I've seen it, or a similar one.

2,000 BC? Greek. Has a specific style/cultural name but I forget what it is.

Bingo enough. I liked it because it looks so modern and clean, not 4000 years old.

Apologies to other guessers: sorry, I'd misremembered it as being Egyptian.

 

[C R]

Bingo enough. I liked it because it looks so modern and clean, not 4000 years old.

Apologies to other guessers: sorry, I'd misremembered it as being Egyptian.

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So it was from Afriasiaeuria as I had said.

 

[briantrumpet]

PS - it is also very beautiful, and enigmatic. An extraordinary thing.

 

[briantrumpet]

So it was from Afriasiaeuria as I had said.

Sorry, my mistake, despite your laser-like precision.

 

[AndyRM]

Bingo enough. I liked it because it looks so modern and clean, not 4000 years old.

Apologies to other guessers: sorry, I'd misremembered it as being Egyptian.

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Cycladic, that was it! Reminds me of cicadas, which are considerably less tranquil than the statue.

 

[briantrumpet]

Next...

 

[C R]

Next...

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Scandinavian, bronze age.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Across all of these periods there were astonishing artisans, making groundbreaking cultural and artistic discoveries which have survived thousands of years. What do we get? Tech bros and shitty apps 🙄

 

[C R]

Across all of these periods there were astonishing artisans, making groundbreaking cultural and artistic discoveries which have survived thousands of years. What do we get? Tech bros and shitty apps 🙄

The word you are looking for is enshitification.

 

[briantrumpet]

Scandinavian, bronze age.

Nope. I've even got my geography right this time!!

 

[Pross]

I’m guessing Greek but no idea on time

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I’m guessing Greek but no idea on time

I was going to say Greek, purely because I watched 'Two weeks in August' recently on the BBC about friends on holiday in Greece and apparently goats figure prominently in Greek mythology!