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Resurrection of a Bush DAC 90 wireless set
Bakelite
box,
Bought ‘54,
Spoke out the News
In days of yore.
Old John
Snagge,
Alvar Lidell,
Their starched crisp tones
I knew well.
Twenty-four
years
Without complaint,
By ‘78, though,
Getting faint.
A bang and
a pop,
A rubbery smell,
From then on feeling
Rather unwell.
Then up
went my ghost
And sadly I died,
But no one mourned me,
Never cried.
The years
rolled on -
Nearly twenty-eight -
Bleak oblivion,
My dusty fate:
Cupboards,
attics,
A garage chill:
A fate worse than death
Or just being ill.
But, hey
presto, one day
Came the Internet –
A far cry indeed
From a superhet!
But through
it, that marvel,
Came to be found
A repairer in Yorkshire,
Able and sound. ***
So off I
went
In a big cardboard box,
All packed up –
Polystyrene blocks!
Finally in
October ‘05
As in the fifties
I came alive.
No Home or
Third
Or good old Light,
But still Radio Four Long Wave
Every night.
To Tom and
Will,
My owner’s sons,
I boom out bold
As I did once
To their
Dad
When, as a boy,
My deep, rich voice
Filled with him with joy.
With my
choir of valves
I sing out this day:
Resurrection now!!
DAC 90A!!
By Noel Kent
8th March 2006
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