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Ron Geesin was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, but escaped to England at the age of just 17 in a jazz band. After four years touring with the band, Ron began his solo career in London. In 1970, he composed music for the features The Body and Sunday Bloody Sunday while co-composing Pink Floyd's first gold album, 'Atom Heart Mother'. Over the years this polymath has been the subject of 'One Man's Week' for BBC Television, formed a one-man record company, written and presented two series for BBC Radio, made music for many documentaries and feature films, and continued to perform live and broadcast across the UK and Europe. In 1996 he became Senior Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, focussing on light and sound relationships, which led to his designing several large-scale installations. Now living in Sussex with his wife, Ron has been collecting adjustable spanners for over thirty years, and the results of this passion form the basis for this book.
The adjustable spanner is a much maligned tool producing many
barked knuckles and rounded nuts but Ron Geesin reveals so much of
what has gone into this particular ‘fits-all’ tool. To my mind this
book has it all: human drama, technological change and wide ranging
variety of data and photos. Definitely one for anyone with a
curious mind, who wants to know why and when. Very good
*Velocette Owners Club*
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