Korgscrew
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Posted: June 18 2004, 18:41 |
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The TBIII one is quite large, as I recall. It was indeed made by Model Solutions, they do a lot of work for album sleeves, and much of it not miniature, as you'll see.
The tubing used for Trevor Key's original was around 1.5 inches (around 3.8cm) in diameter, so it wouldn't actually have been much different in size to how it appears on the LP cover.
It would certainly have been taken in Trevor's studio, I would say lit from about 45 degrees on top and slightly to camera left, with a diffused light source...perhaps a small softbox? There's still a fair directionality to the light, and for the underside of the bell to appear dark, there'd have to be very little spilling onto there. It could have been taken against a black velvet background, but note how the underside in parts closer to the camera is not black but slightly blue, making me think it's reflecting the background.
Perhaps more of a clue comes from the cover of The Orchestral Tubular Bells - not the same shot, but it could be a similar setup. The lighting is different there, but there are similarly coloured reflections in the bell (but note how there are also some objects reflected in it - I'm not sure what, but they appear as dark patches).
I'd guess it was probably taken with a fairly wide angle lens to exaggerate the perspective. It would also have given Trevor a helpfully closer minimum focus distance (and a greater depth of field, which he'd not have achieved with the use of close-up accessories like bellows, extension tubes or a macro lens...but I don't think he'd have needed to have been so close as to need anything of that sort).
As Sir Mustapha has already said, it was stolen from Trevor Key's studio, though not immediately afterwards, so he had posession of it for a fair amount of time. Who knows where it is now...
Being metal tubing, it would resonate when struck, if hung correctly, but it wouldn't necessarily be particularly musical sounding - it certainly wasn't designed to be.
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