Price Thomann €59.
Monday, 25 December 2023
Soundhole pickup (Humbucker + mic) for acoustic guitar
Price Thomann €59.
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
Takamine jumbo, electro acoustic guitar
Takamine G-series EG523SC-black

The TK-40 preamp gives you a tunable notch filter and switchable midrange contour. The notch filter allows you to dial in a setting to eliminate feedback issues. It does this by cutting out harsh frequencies that are inherent in amplified acoustics. Active electronics with onboard EQ translate all that tone into the electrical world with total fidelity. The onboard chromatic tuner is very convenient and easy to use. All together an absolutely gorgeous guitar. (Price: €260)
Technical Specs:
Body Shape: Jumbo with cutaway
Top: Solid Spruce with X-bracing
Back and sides: Flamed Maple
Neck: Maple
Fingerboard: Rosewood (Palissander)
radius: 12" (305 mm)
Nut: 42.8 mm, synthetic bone
Bridge: rosewood (Palissander), with 2-piece synthetic bone saddle
Scale: 25.4" (644 mm)
Fret Inlay: (565) Block MOP with Abalone
Rosette: Abalone
Tuners: Takamine chrome
Preamp: TK-40 with chromatic tuner (LED),
volume, 3-band EQ, notch filter en mid contour
Pickup: piëzo, 2-delig (1 per brugzadeldeel)
Finish: Black, high gloss
Sunday, 5 November 2023
Guitar gods: The most influential guitarists of all time
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Black Strat - David Gilmore |
Blues/Rock Guitarists 2023: Eric Clapton ; Joe Bonamassa ; Ry Cooder ; Ron Wood ; Bonnie Raitt ; Robert Cray ; Eric Gales ; Gary Clark jr. ; Robben Ford
Metal Guitarists 2023: Steve Vai ; John Petrucci ; Tony Iommy ; James Hetfield ; Zakk Wylde ; Kirk Hammett ; Devin Townsend ; Michael Schenker ; Kiko Loureiro ; Mike Campbell
Sunday, 15 October 2023
Neck pillow BMW
2 pieces ordered at Etsy €53 (incl. €5,46 shipping)
Saturday, 7 October 2023
What a performance!
Third world title in Formula 1 for Max Verstappen!
Max Verstappen is opnieuw wereldkampioen geworden in de Formule 1. De 26-jarige Nederlander stelde tijdens de sprintrace in Qatar zijn derde mondiale triomf veilig, omdat Sergio Pérez uitviel.
Uniek seizoen Max Verstappen: ‘Makkelijk zeggen dat je met dominante auto eventjes alles wint’.
Je hoeft Max Verstappen in het hete Doha niet eens goed in het vizier te hebben, om te kunnen zien waar hij zich na de sprintrace op het Losail International Circuit heen begeeft. Fotografen en cameramannen duikelen over elkaar heen om het best mogelijke shot van de wereldkampioen te maken. Na een persconferentie, televisie-interviews en een onderhoud met de Nederlandse media wordt Verstappen in de garage van Red Bull Racing onthaald als de grote ster. De opgetrommelde dj start dan, uiteraard, het We Are The Champions in.
Afvinken
,,Het is weer een heel speciaal seizoen geweest”, aldus Verstappen, die tijdens de sprintrace al kampioen werd, omdat teamgenoot Sergio Pérez uitviel. ,,Als het nu niet gebeurde, dan was het wel zondag zover of anders de race erna. Het voelt een beetje als iets afvinken. Ik ben nu drie keer wereldkampioen, ik had nooit gedacht dat ik dat kon bereiken.”
Nog zes races te gaan, inclusief de Grand Prix van zondag in Doha, maar natuurlijk hoort een beetje terugblikken er nu ook bij. Verstappen vindt het moeilijk om er één race in het bijzonder uit te halen. Dat is inderdaad ook geen sinecure, als je zoveel hebt gewonnen. ,,Meerdere weekenden waren bijzonder. Thuis winnen in Zandvoort is altijd top, maar Spa-Francorchamps was ook een hoogtepunt. En Japan met het winnen van de constructeurstitel. De winst in Miami komt ook naar boven, dat was op dat moment in het seizoen een belangrijke zege.”
Superseizoen
Sindsdien is Verstappen eigenlijk ook niet meer te stoppen geweest en heeft hij teamgenoot Pérez zoek gereden. Groter kan het contrast tijdens het feestgedruis voor de garage zaterdag ook niet zijn, want bij enkele monteurs van Pérez staat het gezicht op onweer als ze in een heftruck langsrijden. Zij gaan nog een lange avond tegemoet, omdat de auto van de Mexicaan gerepareerd dient te worden.
Juist gezien het grote verschil met Pérez, toch ook geen koekenbakker, laat de laatste maanden zien dat Verstappen nóg meer uit zijn RB19 weet te halen. ,,Het is makkelijk zeggen dat je met een dominante auto eventjes alles wint, maar er waren genoeg races dat het ons niet makkelijk werd gemaakt. En dan konden we vaak toch winnen. Het is een superseizoen geweest en dit zal niet makkelijk te evenaren zijn.”
Sunday, 1 October 2023
Is nature there for us, or are we nature?
'People have put themselves at the top of the pyramid'
They know exactly which nutrients they need and how to get them.
'Every organism does everything it can to survive until its last breath, including humans'A portion of humility is therefore appropriate: we are not above nature, but we are part of it, and we seem to have forgotten that.
Nature is shaped by the way we (humans) organize matters such as legislation, taxation, land use and economy. We must recognize our place in the natural order instead of fleeing into romantic thoughts.
'While we think we are gaining more and more control over nature, we are increasingly losing control over the planetary systems. Natural laws cannot be tampered with (but human laws can)'
The opposition of humans versus nature and animals has a long history within the Western philosophical tradition of thought. Even the ancient Greek philosophers placed man on a pedestal as a 'special animal' above nature and other animals. Man became a political being capable of reason and cooperation. In addition, man was assigned qualities such as 'instinct' and 'intelligence' through the influence of Christianity.
This perspective regarding the priority position of man continued into Enlightenment thinking, in which the concept of freedom became central.
“Freedom is an important value, it was also linked to critical thinking and a kind of ideal of equality, but there is also a downside. If you see people as exceptional, you will put yourself first in this world. But this has now created problems in which we take the earth for granted.”
Yet another report that concludes that nature is doing badly also says everything about ourselves. As long as we do not act on the understanding of the inseparable reciprocity that exists between humans and their living environment, biodiversity loss and climate change as well as human problems will only increase.
Human and nature
Our view of nature has changed considerably over the centuries. But contrary to what some think, there has never been a time of "true harmony" between humans and nature.
Man has always influenced nature. What has changed is the way in which humans view themselves and their place in nature.
Paradise
The Judeo-Christian Bible, which has had (and still has) such a great influence on Western thought, opens with the paradise story with Adam and Eve as the first people on earth, in complete harmony with nature. It is a harmony with our natural environment that many people in the 21st century long for, as they watch with horror how modern humans are guilty of deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, animal suffering and climate change and overpopulation.
But anyone who zooms in on that word 'paradise' will see that man has never lived completely in harmony with nature. The word originally did not refer to a dreamed-up natural environment that was still unspoiled by man, but to the pre-Christian custom of the Persian nobility to create a 'paridaida': an enclosed area that was to serve as a pleasure garden, game park or hunting area. .
There has never been a time when humans had no influence on nature. What has changed over the centuries is the way in which humans view themselves and their place in nature.
Christianity is also to blame. According to this belief, nature is a valuable gift from God to man, over which man should rule as a steward. That sounds good in itself, but it did mean a turnaround: with Christianity we said goodbye to the idea that nature itself could be divine.
A third main suspect for the Fall is the Enlightenment, the movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that focused on human reason and perception. New ideas were shared all over Europe: the German astronomer Johannes Kepler described the universe as a clock, the British physicist Isaac Newton discovered the mechanical laws of nature and the French thinker René Descartes saw animals as automata: organisms that experience neither happiness nor pain .
All these changes in our actions and thoughts have played a role in our interaction with nature over the centuries. Yet there is more of a wave movement in the relationship between man and nature than of a hard separation between before and after the Fall. Take Antiquity: the Greek Stoics looked at the world as something that existed for the salvation of people and the gods. The Roman author Lucretius (in the 1st century BC) saw nature as something that had to be 'finished' by man. The word nature comes from the Latin word nascere, which means 'to be born'. Nature is always in a state of development and humans have an important role in this.
Let's look at the Netherlands at the beginning of the 19th century. The French occupiers had left our country destitute and King I was fully committed to the economic development of the country. The Dutch landscape, which still largely consisted of swamps and wastelands (sand drifts and heathlands), had to be made 'useful'. Thinking about nature conservation was a luxury.
At the time, the Netherlands was nothing more than a patchwork of individual regions. To integrate those areas economically, canals, paved roads and railways were built. Crucial to this were new inventions: artificial fertilizer made it possible to turn poorer soils into agricultural areas; barbed wire ensured that bushes and hedgerows were no longer necessary to keep livestock together; thanks to steam pumping stations, enormous areas could be drained.
The same drive to design the Dutch landscape down to the last centimeter according to our economic wishes also became visible after the Second World War, when our country was left destitute for the second time by a foreign occupier. Even then, the Dutch government was fully committed to intensifying agriculture and industrialization.
Our view of animals also changed. They are not unilaterally determined by their rationality, but animals - just like humans - have an inner capacity to experience feelings such as pain. That idea was partly fueled by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which described the relationship between humans and animals. A new concept that emerged at that time was 'ecology': the doctrine that revealed that there is an interaction between people, animals and plants and that they are mutually dependent on each other. From the idea that nature is not as far removed from humans as previously thought, the conviction arose that she too deserves rights.
In the 1960s, the major environmental movements emerged in the United States, born from concerns about the population explosion, air and water pollution, agricultural poisons, nuclear fallout, acid rain and the depletion of raw materials. The nature movements have also been prominent in the Netherlands since then. Environmental legislation was introduced and a lot of pollution has stopped.
In terms of attention to the protection of habitats and animals, an enormous amount has improved.
Biodiversity
Nowadays we often talk about 'biodiversity', a term coined in the United States in 1986.
States under conservationists emerged. The concept emphasizes the importance of preserving a wide variety of species, but it is also a catch-all concept. This can obscure the fact that reality is layered: where one species struggles, another flourishes. In the book The Discovery of Nature (2021), Dutch ecologists emphasize that it is not possible to provide a clear picture of what has happened to Dutch biodiversity since 2000. For example, insects are not doing well, but some large mammals are flourishing.
“But just as paradise never existed, neither does the apocalypse.”
Monday, 7 August 2023
Holidays 2023 - Gîte Les Babelous, Ardèche, France
Comfortable, cozy holiday home in the green Ardèche, 20 minutes from Valence, 15 minutes from the grands crus of the Côtes du Rhône, located in a wooded park of 8,000 m².
Large living room with private terrace with flowers and trees, kitchen corner, 1 double bedroom.
Sofa bed, bathroom, toilet, table tennis. Central heating.
On the ground floor of the owner's house, private privacy.
A 500 m walk from the village (shops).
To see: landmark of Crussol, the villages of Chalencon, Boucieu le Roi, Beauchastel, tourist train of Lamastre. Numerous marked walks. Markets with regional products.
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
New tablet and stylus pen
Vorige week in Wenen gekocht:
Apple iPad (2021) 9th generation - 10.2" - WiFi - 64Gb - greyDe nieuwe Apple iPad beschikt over de geavanceerde A13 Bionic-chip, deze zorgt voor razendsnelle prestaties. Het 10,2 inch Retina scherm geeft prachtige kleuren en met behulp van True Tone heb je altijd een beeld wat prettig is voor je ogen. De nieuwe ultra-groothoekcamera met middelpunt zet je altijd in het middelpunt van het scherm, wat erg handig is bij het videobellen.Camera's : De Middelpunt-feature en de 12MP ultragroothoekcamera aan de voorkant zorgen samen voor drastisch beter beeld. Daardoor zien je selfies en groepsfoto's er mooier uit dan ooit. Dankzij Middelpunt blijf je automatisch midden in beeld, waardoor videobellen zowel makkelijker als handiger wordt. En je kunt er ook leuke video's voor social media mee maken. De 8MP groothoekcamera aan de achterkant legt haarscherpe foto's en video's vast.
Skechers GOwalk ArchFit
Sunday, 25 June 2023
Bluetooth Vibrating Disc with alarm app voor iPhone
.... Allesvoororen , Hearplanet , BellmanVibio.pdf
Sunday, 18 June 2023
BMW K100 Caferacer - SOLD
Nieuw project gestart: ombouwen BMW K100 LT tot caferacer
Interface BEP 3.0 (€180)
KM-teller ACE (€160)
Contactslothouder (€30)
Drukknoppen: alarm, abs
Spiegels bar-end (€30)
Buddyseat (€80)
Subtotaal circa: (€1000)
Verder kan er nog gewerkt worden aan:
Spatborden v/a, Achterrem, Pedalen l+r, Wrappen tank etc, grote beurt olie en filters.
info / parts: cafe4racer.eu , caferacerwebshop.com , bmwk.nl ,
Update: Verkocht voor €400 (10-2-2024)
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Company Laptop
Fish Doorbell at Weerdsluis Utrecht - Live Stream (Spring only)
Sunday, 16 April 2023
LaPaz 1/2 classical guitar, sunburst
Specifications:
- LaPaz classical guitar with nylon strings
- model: 002 1/2
- body
- size: 1/2
- top: linde (basswood)
- back and sides: linde (basswood)
- finish: gloss
- binding: ABS, white
- rosette: traditional
- neck
- connection: glued
- material: berken (birch)
- fingerboard: black hardwood
- radius: flat
- binding: ABS, wit
- number of frets: 18
- scale: 55,6 cm
- nut: 45 mm plastic
- hardware
- bridge: black hardwood
- tuners: gold plated with white buttons
- weight: 1,1 kg
- dimensions: 88x31x9 cm
- price Bax music: €44
ENO TC-16 Trouble Overdrive effectpedaal
Met de TC-16 Trouble Overdrive heeft u een effectpedaal in handen dat zeer weinig ruimte inneemt op uw pedalboard. Deze ENO stompbox levert u een natuurgetrouwe weergave van een romige Britse buizen-overdrive met een rijke laag aan boventonen. De twee-standenschakelaar geeft u de keuze tussen de HP en LP instellingen die u voorzien van een groter dynamische bereik.
ENO TC-16 Trouble Overdrive
Binnen vintage varianten van muziekstijlen als elektrische blues en rock is de Trouble Overdrive uitstekend inzetbaar. Uw cleane gitaargeluid wordt ongekleurd weergegeven wanneer deze True Bypass TC-16 stompbox uitgeschakeld staat. Met Drive bepaalt u de mate van vervorming, de Tone potmeter bepaalt waar u klankmatig de nadruk wilt leggen en het algehele volume van dit ENO effect wordt ingesteld met de Level draaiknop.
Poweradapter: 9V excl.
Prijs: € 30 (Bax music)
Monday, 10 April 2023
10 Hacks for a better Lifestyle
- Varied and healthy food, Multivitamins, (Athletic) Greens,
- Cold showers (Wim Hof methode), Sauna
- Martial Arts, Jiu Jitsu (Brazilian), Budo
- Exercise, go outdoor, walk, fitness, yoga, pilates
- Meditation (Mindfulness)
- Non-sleep Deep Rest (NSDR protocal 10 min. dayly)
- Poetry, Art moments (eg. toilet)
- Stoic Filosophy (Mark Tuitert: Drive)
- Reflection, think about live, your goals etc.
- Play music (especially guitar)
Saturday, 1 April 2023
Epiphone WildKat
Bridge: LockTone Tune-o-matic + Bigsby B70 Vibrato
Pickups: P-90R dog ear Classic
Scale (mensuur): 24.72 inch (628 mm)
Frets: 22 medium jumbo
Friday, 10 March 2023
Pannekoekplant
De Pannenkoekenplant heeft een comeback gemaakt, want ook in de jaren ’70 was de plant populair. Deze retro kamerplant heeft platte, ronde bladeren en doet daardoor denken aan pannenkoekjes of aan muntjes. Van origine komt deze Pilea uit China, vandaar dat hij in het Engels de bijnaam Chinese Money Plant heeft. Momenteel komt het Pannenkoekenplantje steeds vaker voorbij, maar voorheen waren ze lastiger te verkrijgen. Het kweken werd namelijk alleen gedaan in Scandinavië.
Je ziet het niet vaak, maar een Pannenkoekplant kan kleine witte bloemetjes krijgen. Dan groeit er een stengel zoals gewoonlijk, maar dan met kleine trosjes witte bloemen.
Water : Gemiddeld
Zon : Half schaduw
Bladeren zijn niet giftig en