Brother HL5240 laser printer

Advantages: Good all round laser printer, loads of pros
Disadvantages: very few, if any

...General & price: WOW, what a brilliant printer this is. Another great laser from Brother. I have had this printer for quite a few months now. I bought it for around £150 but the prices come anywhere between £140 and £220 from verious online retailers or some high street stores. There is so much i could say about this printer but it would take me ages to write it all and i'm not sure if i can handle it all. But i will right all the important parts. Design: The design of the HL5250dn is brilliant. In my opinion the best looking printer Brother have ever done. Most of Brother's lasers as well as many others on the market are just a neutral cream colour but this is black and grey which may not sound very appealing but when you see it, it looks great. It is a good size, simple printer that will fit into any office, school or home. It...

marktomo06 08.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Brother HL 5240

tap tap drum drum tap a tune on this drum

Advantages: children love it
Disadvantages: noise

...The picture on this category is not the correct one for the tap a tune drum I will see iof I can remedy that , Tap tap, tap a tune on this baby piano baby. You can buy this toy for £9.99p at most stores look online these are so many http://www.mailorderexpress.com/LittleTikesBaby Tap-A-TunePiano.asp, and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Tap-A-Tune-Piano/dp/B 00002QUNX do. This toy is suitable for a child aged between 6 months and 3 years old depending on their development. We have this toy in a special needs school Now this tunefull toy is made of plastic its very strong. The piano is red with a white keyboard. There are no legs on this grand piano as the shape of this toy is like a piano. It measures about 8" x 8" x 4". So your child can carry this around and you could take it to granny to show of your Childs musical...

mumsymary 19.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Little Tikes Tap a Tune Drum

Are you smiling at this drum

Advantages: good for motor control and babies attention
Disadvantages: noise

...Smile at this drum, ~~~~~~~~~~~ This smile drum is one I have played with at work. It may not be what immediately pops into your head as a drum, but this is what it is it's a smile drum. This toy/musical instrument is a bit like a traditional hand mirror in shape. It has a long cylindrical handle with a drum circle at the top. The drum is just a drumming fabric stretched across the circle. The drum has a smiley face printed on it, it measures 20cm across. Young babies and children always respond well to a face on a toy the two eyes and mouth. The smile face printed on this drum is rather appealing. Attached either side to the coloured plastic frame that circles the drumming fabric are two beads that are attached with a piece of string. This drum is made in pink, y yellow, orange, or green To play this drum...

mumsymary 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Toyday Smile Drum

Excellent and Noisy Fun with Fun with a Drum

Advantages: Educational, well built, inexpensive, good variety of instruments
Disadvantages: Very, very loud, maracas slightly too small

...I bought this product for my son from our local supermarket. Although he was only 14 months at the time he has shown a real love of musical instruments and I wanted to steer him away from my kitchen pans and long-loved recorder to something of his own which would give him the same joys and still be educational. From the moment I took it out of the packaging he wanted to get his hands on it and spent the first hour drumming solidly, enjoying every minute of it. It was a little harder for him to switch from blowing down the recorder to using the harmonica but once he'd made that first note he had no troubles and he was delighted with the tambourine. The maracas are fairly small (perfect for his little hands but I expect he would soon grow out of them) but the drum and tambourine are a nice size and will last well past his third birthday...

Morgelyn 25.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of First Act Fun with a drum - Junior Drum Pack

The rumbling drums of Japan

Advantages: Variety of style, detailed booklet
Disadvantages: I cannot think of any

...A terrific blend of plucked Tsugaru Shamisen and feral drums. Wadaiko Matsuriza is a professional group from Hachioji, composed of twenty-one performers (mostly on drums). The power delivered by twenty-odd drums is very impressive. Tempestuous, electric, calculated and arousing would all be perfect words to describe Wadaiko Matsuriza. If you are not familiar with Japanese Taiko drums, this is the best place to start. Wadaiko Matsuriza manage to create a very intertaining style of folklore, mostly upbeat. This CD was released in 2002. Wadaiko Matsuriza have been touring since 1996. The group uses 3 distinct instruments: The Taiko drum, the Tsugaru Shamisen (the Japanese Banjo - not to be mistaken for the Koto instrument) and also the Horagai, the latter being a conch-shell trumpet. Gaku makes use of a Chappa too, which is...

gantzgraf 12.08.2006 (11.09.2006) · Read review
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Review of Japanese Drums - Wa Dai Ko Matsuriza

Drum Machine Dinosaurs

Advantages: Individual outputs, mental tuning options, good pattern programming
Disadvantages: Primative, some dodgy sounds, small memory, early versions are tempramental

...I used to own a drumtraks drum machine but it got nicked by someone who was in love with the kickdrum sounds. Plainly the man was either deaf of insane as i certainly would not buy another one today. The SCI drumtraks is a fairly primative drum machine released in 1984 alongside the SCI sixtraks synth/sequencer. The front panel has 13 drum buttons divided into six channels with each channel having it's own monophonic output jack which is handy for external processing. The sounds themselves are not really anthing to be excited about, the clap in particular sounds like no human hand was ever involved in its production. This is odd as the Drumtraks was one of the first drum machines to use sampled sounds. The fact that you can play each sound at 16 different tunings makes up for the crap sounds to some extent as each sound can be tuned...

crustypaul 03.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Sequential Circuits DrumTraks

Dis Is Da Drum!!

Advantages: Awesome chillout cd
Disadvantages: Not to everyones taste

...Dis Is Da Drum - Herbie Hancock! Who is Herbie Hancock?? Well, he was born in 1940 and by the tender age of 11 was considered somewhat of a piano virtuoso. In 1963 he received a life changing phone call from Miles Davis asking Herbie to join his band "The Miles Davis Quintet". He then took his solo career to new heights and even after being a professional musician for 5 decades is still at the forefront. He has been and is a huge inspiration in the Jazz and R&B culture we know today. The CD opens on "Call it 95", an über-funky tune in which Herbie lays down some classic, simple lines on his acoustic piano and is accompanied by some funky slide bass, awesome sax licks and as many different drum sounds as you can imagine! On this track alone there are 13 different musicians collaborating. It's the sort of track that perfectly...

hukerjohn 19.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Dis Is Da Drum - Herbie Hancock

Tin Drum gets a face-lift.

Advantages: Better sound
Disadvantages: None

...This is the kind of re-issue that I don't mind paying extra for, not only does it come in a separate box with an alternative cover shot, inside that box comes the original album which is now has a digi-pack cover and best of all a separate bonus disc of extra tracks, the cover of the bonus C.D. recreates the original photos (check out Mick Karn who is sporting a dodgy car salesman moustache) used to make up the fold-out cover of the “The Art of Parties” 7inch released as a single with catalogue number Virgin VS379 in May 1981 it reached number 48 in the UK singles chart. Japans album "Tin Drum" stood out from other albums of it’s ilk at the time as the lead singer David Sylvain was doing a Scott Walker, Bryan Ferry, Nick Drake with little hints of David Bowie circa "Station to Station" period style of singing, this...

Miles13 30.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of Tin Drum [Remastered] - Japan

Here Come The Drms, Here Come The Drums

Advantages: Edgy electro dance music
Disadvantages: None

...Here Come The Drums - Rogue Traders****(and a half) You can't have avoided the insanely catchy single Voodoo Child from the latest huge act to hit the UK charts from Australia (and Neighbours). Yes Izzie/Izzy and her mates the Rogue Traders release their debut over these waters. So is it much cop or is Natalie Barometer (it's like the new Sugababe these surnames are too much sorry Natalie? Bassingthwaighte) gonna have to go back and have an affair with Harold Bishop? 1. Believer - The opening track from the Rogue Traders (I wonder where they did get there name from) has a 'hey, hey, hey' opening like that Prodigy song we can't remember? Fire starter! It then bizarrely starts to sound like Gwen Stefani singing over a hard rocky Pink song, all guitars and hard drums! Damn, it its not half bad. "Just come on and say you love me, one...

simoon69 12.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Here Come The Drums - Rogue Traders

Roland Drums... my pride and joy!

Advantages: Great authentic sounds, feels like playing real drums
Disadvantages: knowing that if you had £5000 you could get a much better one

...I brought my Roland V Drums about a year and a half ago. I love them to bits. At the time, i couldnt afford them at all. However I played on a kit in a music shop and fell in love with them. I immediately promised myself to get a job and save up to get one. So, eventually I did. I still struggle now to understand the technology. You're hitting rubber and plastic pads, and real drum sounds come out... its increadible. Although the TD8 is not the most advanced kit in the series, it still does SO much. It registers how hard you hit the drums, where you hit the drums and they are really responsive. One of the major benefits of this piece of equipment is that you can play music into it to play along to. This can be very useful for practicing and picking up new things while listening to your favourite tunes! Also, its a great...

priesty8899 20.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Roland V Drums TD 8