280 mile round trip to take my youngest to a university open day.
The University of Surrey has an amazing recording complex and a Moog room. Not a huge room ( maybe the size of a small domestic kitchen) but full of Moog stuff all wired up. I counted 27 of the wooden box pedals then all the synths,etc.
We walked to Andertons. Bloody hell it was busy. Lot of stuff in there too although it screams ‘ we need bigger premises.’ There are demo rooms but hardly room to swing a cat/ try an instrument elsewhere. If I was contemplating a major purchase there I’d try to avoid a Saturday afternoon.
The walk to the town centre was short but unpleasant ( get some bleach down that underpass!) but quite a posh centre.
Anyway, never been before and no plans to go again ( I think he’s trying to go to Leeds in the end) so that was my little adventure and interesting to see Andertons as it is probably the best known instrument shop in the U.K.
Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell.
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Unfortunately that's why I skip there and go to guitarguitar instead. Which is prefer in every way really.
Good luck to your lad btw.
All credit to them to get a music store that busy but I wasn't that keen on it as an experience.
Good university, not much grass left like there was in the 80s. Lots of pubs for beer races etc
nice countryside to run and cycle round
Unfortunately I don’t think my son has much chance of getting on the course. Quite high expectations around maths and he only started studying music technology because he failed his maths.
Yeh, the Tonmeister. Unique course in the U.K. related to courses in Germany started by Stockhausen. Very maths and physics heavy but also you need to be musical. One of the year two students told us he struggled with the maths on the course as he only had grade B at A level and the other said he was the worst musician in his year as he only had grade 8 on saxophone.
I think we’ve worked out that C at GCSE maths and knowing some Nirvana riffs isn’t going to get my son on the course.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
As my wife says .......it's not the length it's the girth .......and both have a brevity of the best gear on the planet
How much space do you need to play a guitar ? obviously you have never played as a 5 piece in the same pubs as me !
Round here now they only ever smell of semen, and murder.