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Itzhak Perlman plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Perlman, Yo Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax - Live From Lincoln Center

Tuscany

Tuscany

Florence -- monteriggioni -- Barone Ricasoli -- Siena

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Orion Speaker - Cont.

 I have streamlined a few components and also converted the text to engraved ones

Next thing is to figure out most effective way to join woofer boards to side panel

Orion Speakers

The color schema is inspired by Piano

Essence of Florence

It's dreadful to drive around the town, I had a nightmare with malfunction GPS and drove right across piazza pitti and made 3-point-turns in narrow lanes with Volvo XC60 full-size car, almost hit-n-kill several pedestrians [ :) not really ]in that crazy night.

In florence, or maybe just like in every other old Europe city, every route needs to be planned carefully to avoid Limited Traffic Access Zone (ZTL). Painful lesson to learn from.

However travel on foot is much easy and pleasant!

The David (the original is in the Galleria dell'Accademia) by Michelangelo
Palazzo Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria

Giambologna(1579–1583) 's Rape of the Sabines

Loggia dei Lanzi

The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word "rape" is a conventional translation of Latin raptio, which in this context means "abduction" rather than its prevalent modern meaning in English language of sexual violation

The Medici lions are two lion sculptures placed around 1600^[1] at the Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, and since 1789 displayed at the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. The sculptures depict standing male lions with a sphere under one claw, looking to the side. The Medici lions have also been copied, or strongly inspired new sculptures, in many other locations.

Wives are happily shopping while husbands are feeling a little bored

 Galleria degli Uffizi, also known as the Uffizi Gallery, Italy's top art museum

 Inside Palazzo Vecchio

 Inside Palazzo Vecchio

Inside Palazzo Vecchio

 Inside Uffizi Gallery , just before "No Photo"

The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River.

The Duomo

An evening in in Piazza del Duomo, perfect picture for the opening for this Blog. 10:08 at night vivid memory is bringing me back to late April ... Bell rings in distance, what a gloomy Thursday! Overcharged Taxi ride, rude staff in hotel and pouring rain almost kill any good impression in Florence, however it's still Florence, ture color is to be shown in days followed.

 Inside Duomo

Dove is calculating sth for over 10 minutes right outside my window

Room with a View