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Don’t have an antique Underwood? Make your own. That’s what Blythe Church did.
Her typewriter will never be used to write a novel, but it’s novel enough on its own to merit a look. It’s made from custom-dyed felt, and embroidery.
A soft answer turneth away wrath? Here’s your source of soft words, then, eh?
You can see other works by Ms. Church at her website.
Tip of the old scrub brush to boing-boing.
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OT and nothing to do with typewriters, but I thought you might be interested in new words in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The one I like the best is “mondegreen”.
“And then there’s “mondegreen.” In a category of its own, it describes words mistaken for other words.
” A mondegreen most often comes from misunderstood phrases or lyrics.
It comes from an old Scottish ballad in which the lyric “laid him on the green” has been confused over time with “Lady Mondegreen.”
Among the best-known modern examples: “There’s a bathroom on the right” in place of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “There’s a bad moon on the rise” and “‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy” in place of “kiss the sky” in the 1967 Jimi Hendrix classic “Purple Haze.”
http://us.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/new.dictionary.words.ap/index.html
Maybe readers have other examples.
BTW, I knew of a composer who made a compostition using old dot-matrix printers to create the sounds. Sorry, I don’t remember the name.
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Wow, that’s amazing. Thank you.
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