Bongo knob retraction in BGM

[the unrepentant]

Remember a couple of months ago when BGM printed a review on the bongo 6 and didn't give it full marks on build quality just because they assumed the aluminium knobs were plastic?

Just opened this month's issue and:
"The US say aluminum and we say aluminium but what we failed to note during the musicman bongo 6 review in issue 38 is that the control knobs are made out of the metal, however you pronounce it. Their extremely lightweight construction apparently had our reviewer believing they were plastic. Apologies all round and we're happy to reinstate the build quality to full marks."

Just thought you'd like to know. A little victory for the knuckleheads perhaps?
And BP can once again sleep properly

 

[syciprider]

I would love to have retractable knobs.

 

[Big Poppa]

Woo Hoo.....

 

[adouglas]

My Bongo's knobs retract when it's really cold.
















Sorry, I just couldn't resist........

 

[bovinehost]

"Beach knobs."

 

[paranoid70]

Aluminium? You Brits crack me up.

 

[koogie2k]

It was cool of them to retract their statement.

 

[Spudmurphy]

Aluminium? You Brits crack me up.

Aluminum - you gotta be joking.

The metal was named by the English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (who, you may recall, “abominated gravy, and lived in the odium of having discovered sodium”), even though he was unable to isolate it: that took another two decades’ work by others. He derived the name from the mineral called alumina, which itself had only been named in English by the chemist Joseph Black in 1790. Black took it from the French, who had based it on alum, a white mineral that had been used since ancient times for dyeing and tanning, among other things. Chemically, this is potassium aluminium sulphate (a name which gives me two further opportunities to parade my British spellings of chemical names).

Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in –ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had been named by Davy.

So come on fellas - the substance was first named by a Brit

 

[BluesBassPlayer]

The metal was named by the English chemist .......

I'm inpressed with your knowledge of tin foil.

Did they retract saying the scratchguard on the Sterling 5 was in the way when slapping?


Jimi

 

[oli@bass]

The metal was named by the English chemist Sir Humphry Davy [...]

So first thing I did in the fresh year of 2009 was to visit the EBMM forums, and what happens?! I even learn something! Gotta be a hell of a new year!

 

[Duarte]

Aluminum - you gotta be joking.

Yeah we should know, they don't call the language 'english' for nothing.