Re: such wonderfully conceived machines exist? (was Paradis polyphonic nylon)

["Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>]

Well put, Matthias.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Grob" <matthias@grob.org>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: such wonderfully conceived machines exist? (was Paradis
polyphonic nylon)


> This sounds beautifull Teresa, thank you very much!
>
> my answer was very short, because I thought you would contact me
> personally if you needed a unit.
> Now I feel like puting that straight:
>
> for the professional scene, society is organized in a way that money
> is available for tremendously high class studio reproduction of
> tremendously low class instruments of poor professional musicians :-(
> for creative musicians the high class production is unacessible, so
> they tend to spend their little money rather on home studio equipment
> than elaborated instruments recently.
> amateurs generally spend money to reproduce the sound of their idols,
> instead of developping their own thing.
>
> in general, humanity lost a lot in the last 20 years by concentrating
> on low prices for the public and absurd high quality in a few
> corners. While the dark majority struggles for daily bread and water,
> the spoiled priviledged citizens want a bit of everything, with
> superficial knowledge of each thing and thus just initial
> satisfaction to participate in a tribe and consume fascinating
> gadgets without dedication to feel a deeper quality. No life energy
> flow, just material and hormones...
>
> my recommendation for people who want to find hapyness and maybe a
> way out of world economy crises:
> concentrate time and money on one or two things you got talent for,
> do it anyway, but rather in a way there is a chance to
> professionalize it in the future. once you become helpfull with this
> skill, clients will come up and you can be happy living off what you
> like to do, without having time and money to spend on all all other
> unnecessary stuff :-)
>
> to come back to Paradis: it was so much easier for Rolf to get a job
> as a designer than to build instruments, that after years of
> struggeling, he choose the easy way. but as his friends had
> predicted, he did not manage to really trash his true destiny and
> talent... :-)
>
> so:
> Paradis did not produce guitars in the last 6 years.
> I have a Polysubbass left, but no quantity.
> But Rolf is working on seting up production again, we have serious
> hopes that next year, there will be a new model, in the tradition of
> Avalon!
>
>
> >I am happy indeed to hear this affirmation! My searches had yielded
> >no indication of the Paradis equipment still living above ground.
> >Even if I never use a Paradis device or even get to see one, it is
> >good to know that such wonderfully conceived machines exist.
> >
> >Please tell me how to connect with a supplier.
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
> >Matthias Grob wrote:
> >
> >>>Is the relevant hardware available? Special cable, Polysubbass, etc.
> >>
> >>
> >>yes
>
>
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