Funeral Tapes

And this is why I love your channel, Mat. Brilliant! 🤣

This whole thing reminded me of Stars on Sunday

Hello chief! I have to admit I’m not necessarily one for the pure technologic, but I am, however, one for the funerary arts and audio. I saw your video here on happenstance and was wondering where you sourced this as I was completely struck by the notion and audio here. Best wishes.

This really made my Saturday evening and took my mind off a lot of turmoil ànd worry, so thank you very much for that.  I can honestly say I'm proud to be a Patron!

This was such a fun episode with the humorous bit at the end

Wow,finallyyou did a very erm...intersting video about something i woulx never want to own. A couple of thoughts, i wasgetting very strong," the Munsters" vibes watching this, may have been better filming in black and white. Also, you could have saved thisvideo u til after your sad demise with specific instructionsto be played on the week of your funeral, sort of a last goodbye video. P.S. Have you considered the fact that it may be haunted!!!!!! 😂😂

Another clue about the year or years involved, both alpha-numeric and numeric-only phone numbers are used in the company labels that you showed for the component and the advertising. That would definitely put in the 1964-1966 range when essentially both systems were in use in the US. (Did the UK do this? Have lettered prefixes with cute names to help with remembering phone numbers? MAyfair 07-1245 for example.

Not what I expected-?! My first thought was, it must be a kit a terminally ill person would order, so they could record a message to play at their own funeral. Why bother with a tape if not to record on? I wonder how common these were. Excellent video as always!! :^)

Nothings beats the newest Burry Manilow Album

love the fun and the energy of the video. nice.

The ending was hilarious. Thanks.

"Organ J Chimes" sounds like "Organ n' Chimes", a very typical typo given J and N are almost next to each other on the keyboard

I actually audibly groaned at the jokes at the end. Well done sir.

Doombox.

So this is how I find out about Dave

Brilliant! Do not change a thing! Absolutely hilarious - one of the all time best Techmoan videos! Laughing so hard I was crying! Thank you - I needed that laugh fest.

Ringway Manchester would like a word about the chimes from your mobile number station . . .

Thanks, Mat! I haven't laughed that hard in awhile.

Awww, I thought you'd have gone with "*below* ground music" right at the end there! All your videos are well received here - intriguing and engaging stuff, with a humorous flair 🌟

I presume that is would come with a sealed lead-acid pack but even so 50 charges sounds a bit low. You said, and it looked like, four track. so how come it worked with an 8 track cartridge. Lived the shot from 16:35 "ON AI' so now we know how you make these videos!

That last section sending off 'Dave' was comedy gold. Thanks Mat with was very funny and made me smile with everything going on at the moment.

r.i.p. Dave.

I doubt you'd get a content match on such poor quality audio. I enjoyed the video, especially your ode to Dave. You could be a stand up comedian Techmoan.

That was a beautiful service, I'd like to think Dave would've been looking down with a little tear in his eye watching that. However we all know he'd actually have been looking up, screaming in fiery agony. Good old Dave.

You need a long mic cable if you’re going to work the crowd.

Some 'hymn facts' for you: That version of 'How great thou art' is a very dirgey version. It's possible you might receive a copyright flag for it as its actually a fairly newish hymn - in fact, if this device was made in the late 60s, then it would have been less than 20 years old at the time of this recording! The bells are chiming the hymns tune 'Cleansing Fountain', usually used for the hymn 'There is a fountain'.

Ahhhh this one killed me 😂😂

I also love that birds eye view of the DJ set up you have there… you could quite easily take requests at the funeral. Shabba 😁

This is great as you looked AND sounded like you had a load of fun doing this video. And nope, I never knew or thought this would be a thing. Plus… 2 grand 60 years ago, that’s one hell of an outgoing 😂 Cheers for this, Matt. Lee

suitably niche! Lets hope the YouTube algorithm doesn't bury this 😅

Funeral starts with fun 🤣. Needed that (sick at home 🥴🤧) The style of music reminds me of Diamonds are Forever, that was apartently fashion in the US for funerals back then...

i'm here for the improv at the wake

Brilliant. A Techmoan high point! As for music to be played at my funeral, I'm hoping for that jazzy little repairing-a-cartridge number.

I'm just imagining it being modified to take the 2XL cartridges... "Ashes to ashes..." "Is the correct answer! David Bowie's 1980 UK No 1 single was indeed called Ashes To Ashes. You don't need to bury YOUR knowledge of British pop history!"

You're killing it.

Nothing like going out in style 🤣

The price seems fairly reasonable if you add up the cost of the transformer, microphone, briefcase, speakers and putting the whole thing together. Presumably the tapes came with it also. I have an image of a crusty old funeral director in the 1960s receiving this thing, and handing it off to his young employee saying "look, just figure it out will you, we'll use it for Mrs Smith's funeral on Tuesday". I hope it worked a bit better brand new than it does now!

Brilliant. That ending was the funniest thing I’ve watched in a while. RIP Dave ⚰️⚰️

I remember going to the funeral of a friend of my Grandfathers, the music he had chosen to be played was John Lennon's Imagine. "Imagine there's no heaven......."

Despite its bizarre, cobbled-together nature, it still works roughly sixty years later. That alone is an achievement in itself, and one for which Louis was certainly well paid.

Better be careful with this one, Mat. You might get a copyright strike from God. Update - Oh - now having watched the show, you cover that. Apologies. A lesser man would simply delete the comment, but I'll leave mine here as a warning to future generations.

Can you link it up to your Ring doorbell?

Great video, love your retro tech videos (though enjoy the others to). Love the "what are you doing?" Subtitle when you have the bigger cart open and fiddling with it. How great thou art features in the new Elvis film currently in the cinema, he use to sing it live a lot

The DoomboX 💀☠️🪦

Finaly got a 1 year subscription.. i really dislike the mess in this patreon thing. Patreon, not Techmoan!

Not so much a boombox, more like a doombox.

Funeral story: A friend's husband died and had a lovely funeral at the funeral home. When it was over they played recessional music while the family exited the Building. I thought Elvis' "Are You Lonesome Tonight" was an interesting choice. When I got outside, the widow was in tears laughing. Apparently the recessional music was on *the other side* of the cassette they gave the funeral home to play.

The lava lamp befits the occasion. "Dave is on a rocket ship to heaven now..."

That organ has got shades of ‘slumber inc’ from the bond film Diamonds are Forever.

I haven't hit this one yet but I expect the chess robot will have a long tail if the product actually officially launches. I'm keeping my eye on it because I actually think it's pretty good. It's what I would want. People will search it. Anyway that has nothing to do with this week but I said it

I appreciate the director's choice to play the music to us as if we're looking down from the heavens.

• This music must have frightened and/or angered all of the cemetery's dearly departed. • Flip off, Louis. I'm going to buy a REAL vibraharp and organ orchestra for 𝘮𝘺 funeral. • Whilst the morticians are otherwise occupied I will record AC/DC onto all of the carts and all of the tracks. • YOU did it! The inevitable 'you can't spell 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 without 𝘧𝘶𝘯' pun. 😁 • 'Wards Riverside Stereo' also took away Muntz's dignity. 🤨 • Damn, you could find one of these handy for four-track cart demos: https://ebay.us/m/7D43jX • Everyone should do this for their FUNeral 😂: https://youtu.be/JEXIEneoA20 • I remembered this clip from a prior video (the playlist features Funeral music 😆) and I don't know why: https://youtu.be/MFOM3W2FBfA&t=0m11s • I think it would be funny to play 'Poison' By Bell Biv DeVoe at a funeral when homicide is suspected. Take care. 🤍

Great video, nice to see interesting things in cases back, the first three bells on the second track sound like the intro to the sitcom Bless this house

Yup, this has 1960s USA plastered all over it! As a 70 year old man of faith who grew up about 150 miles from where this was manufactured, let me give you my thoughts: Unless you have the name pronounced that would keep it as “Lewie,” I would almost guarantee that it would be pronounced “Lewis” in the plains of the U.S. I think closer to St. Louis than the Kingsman version of Richard Berry’s “Louie, Louie.” Also, those bells are called Carillon Bells. It would have been common to play hymns in the church tower on the occasion of a funeral to let the town know someone had died. Here’s a fun fact: In the 70s I actually played the carillon bells for St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in the same Oklahoma City, where I was studying Opera. To tell the truth, I played them so badly, I only played them once. They never asked me to play them again. Thanks for the video.

Foreground music, background music, this is below-ground music, and that Boeing 757 tape player from British Airways you covered back in 2020 would be above-ground music... I think you've got music for all directions now. Left-ground and right-ground?

Loved it. 🤣

One of the best videos I have watched in a long time put a smile on my face!!!!

Another Quality Techmoan production. Love it.

Speaking of funerals, it's exceedingly pleasant to see you no longer looking like you're due for one. ❤️

It's an ITIC!

Don't forget to put "It's over!“ on the YT thumbnail.

Death of the salesman? I think my humour might be passed it