I'll Tape It / Cause I Know You Won't

(National Geographic April 1973; vintage ads)

Ahem ahem: "You want a tape deck that lasts? We'll give you a tape deck that lasts. And lasts. ... Whatever weird instrument your great-grandson will be playing, the Sony TC-377 will capture it."

Weird instruments are the best, guys.

(via boingboing)

Wild Wild West

(via sheaff-ephemera)

Kids / They Are Just Impossible To Control

Punk rock ukulele festival returns.

(via jezebel)

I Write The B-Sides

Does anyone else find this a tad creepy? Clever, but creepy.



(The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, December 1999, via coloribus)

When Will You Realize / Vienna Waits For You

WHAT. THE. YESPLEASE. Apparently I'm into spoof commercials this week. A little twelve-tone music, anyone?



Youtube tells me this was "done in 1977 by Robert Conrad, the founder of WCLV classical radio in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The script was written by conductor Kenneth Jean and Mathias Bamert is said to have had a role in the production."

(via nerdcore)

In The Kitchen / On The Floor

I'll take three, please.



(via insidetheclassics and youtube)

Fiddler On The Roof

Oh hey! A superbowl ad that isn't misogynistic for a change! Although in real life Monster.com doesn't have ads for violinists. Accuracy - heigh ho.



(via Inside the Classics)

So Fly / He Was Transatlantic

Boop boop diddam daddam waddum shoo.



(Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra 2007, via coloribus)

It's A Rollercoaster Kind Of Rush

Now this is my kind of rollercoaster:



Zürich Chamber Orchestra

It's Only A Paper Moon

Designer Kyle Bean created these sheet-music-covered instrument window displays for the luxury brand Hermès (UK, through the beginning of 2010). What do accordions have to do with seriously expensive scarves? Your guess and mine.

(via designjunkies)

Tale As Old As Time

Ooh, vintage-type music advertisements from the early 1900s! I like them.

Aeolian Pianola Piano Player (1905)
If only this were true...



Conn Band Instruments (1926)
I'm more into timpanists, myself.



Columbia Grafonola (1920)
I really hope someone actually took their Grafonola to the beach.


(more, via Vintage Ad Browser)