A real beauty, Gordon. Nice to hear a new one from you.

Kepler-186f (2014)

The Buckley Old Engine Show is held every August in Buckley, Michigan.  Learn more about it here: http://www.buckleyoldengineshow.org/

This is the sound of steam-powered whistles at 7:00 AM, recorded from my tent located over a quarter of a mile (roughly, half a kilometer) away, on Saturday, August 17, 2013 using a Zoom H2n recorder.

These whistles once sounded the work calls for factories which have since closed down.  They are now brought to Buckley every year and mounted on a tower outside the Steam Engine building.  (I took a picture of it for you.  See 'em up there?)  Steam is piped up through the tower and, at various times throughout the day, the whistles are sounded by people pulling on long ropes.  These things are LOUD, and they echo across the fields for a long time.  They make up the best-sounding alarm clock I ever heard--the recording still gives me goosebumps.


Morning Whistles at the Buckley Old Engine Show

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Prettier Now

This is a CD of guitar-oriented music I've recorded over the past 20 years. The tracks cover a lot of ground, jazz, fusion, metal, new age, and a few covers thrown in. 

BIO
Roy Smith has played guitar most of his life, in a wide variety of styles and genres, typically as a session producer and/or musician. During the 80's he worked as a session musician on hit albums from Teddy Pendergrass, Patti Labelle, Lou Rawls, The O'Jays, and the Jones Girls. He has recorded and produced hundreds of projects ranging from demos to a top ten charting song co written with Cynthia Biggs and Dexter Wansel.
Roy co-Founded Turtle Beach Systems with Bob Hoke and helped to create the first hard disk recording system for PCs in 1990. Since leaving Turtle Beach in 1995, Roy has focused on helping startup high tech companies and on writing, producing and recording music at Varuna Studio, his 24 track automated home studio.

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