{"id":15653,"date":"2014-08-06T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T08:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/?p=15653"},"modified":"2014-08-06T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:27:15","slug":"the-sound-of-typing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/the-sound-of-typing\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of typing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The sound of typing is one reason to own a vintage manual typewriter \u2014 alas, there are only three reasons, and none of them are ease or speed. In addition to sound, there is the sheer physical pleasure of typing; it feels just as good as it sounds, the muscles in your hands control the volume and cadence of the aural assault so that the room echoes with the staccato beat of your synapses.\n

\n You can choose the typewriter to match your sound signature.\n

\n Remingtons from the 1930s go THICK THICK. Midcentury Royals sound like a voice repeating the word CHALK. CHALK. CHALK CHALK. Even the typewriters made for the dawning jet age (small enough to fit on the fold-down trays of the first 707s), like the Smith Corona Skyriter and the design masterpieces by Olivetti, go FITT FITT FITT like bullets from James Bond\u2019s silenced Walther PPK. Composing on a Groma, exported to the West from a Communist country that no longer exists, is the sound of work, hard work. Close your eyes as you touch-type and you are a blacksmith shaping sentences hot out of the forge of your mind.\n

\n Try this experiment: on your laptop, type out the opening line of \u201cMoby Dick\u201d and it sounds like callmeishmael. Now do the same on a 1950s Olympia (need one? I\u2019ve got a couple) and behold: CALL! ME! ISHMAEL! Use your iPad to make a to-do list and no one would even notice, not that anyone should. But type it on an old Triumph, Voss or Cole Steel and the world will know you have an agenda: LUGGAGE TAGS! EXTENSION CORDS! CALL EMMA!\n

Tom Hanks: I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

As much as I like this sound, it’s the reason why I can’t use my typewriter<\/a> in our small paper-thin-walls parisian flat. Neighbours really don’t seem to appreciate this kind of music\u2014neither does my friend, to be honest \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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