TAK! Peter Pan.
Some fantastic photo's in there, especially in the aluminium factory. When did you go?

Andy T.

Thanks Ed.
The guy with the long hair is definately Stefan, and yes he is from Germany.

Andy T.

When did you go?

              20 April 2007

                               Peter Pan.

Not quite yet, Ed. Just suffering from writers block. You'll know when I get to the end.
I'll try and do a bit tonight.

Andy T.

Although the bus picked us up at 8.00, we still managed to be seated for a presentation at 8.15.
It was delivered by Geoffrey Martin and was entitled "Tonmeister at Bang and Olufsen--working scientifically with sound" Unfortunately, not being a very technically minded person, a lot of this information went straight over my head. I'm sure it was of great interest to some of our party as many technical questions were asked and answered constructively
Straight after this, a similar lecture was given by Robert Nurgberg called "The Design process"
Lee, Ed and I were late arriving for this and interupted his flow, we hastily went to the back and allowed him to continue.
To me these two lectures were too much like being back at school.
At 9.15 we had a coffee break in the lobby. To liven things up a little, I entertained my fellow Beoworlders on the piano.
This is me playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor.
I followed this with Scott Joplin's "Maple leaf Rag" and finnished off with Mozart's Concerto KV 242 for 3 pianos.
You should have seen my fingers running up and down the keyboard like little maggots.

I take it from your post that you can't play

After the recital, we went back into the same lecture room and the next presentation was of much moe interest to me.
It was delivered by Ronny Kaas Mortensen and was all about the New Struer Museum.
It is a futuristic new building attatched to an old one, the best photo's of this are in Ed's photo's.
All the stuff in the "Time Tunnel" will eventually be moved there.
Ed and I did go to look at it on the Sunday and peer through the windows but it was still empty.
After Ronny's talk we went back into the lobby where Lee presented Gitte with the signed bottle of champagne on behalf of us all.
Thanks for that, Lee

Sadly, we were nearing the end of our pilgrimage.
We went back into the lecture room where Thea made herself known. What a brave young lady!  Standing up in front twenty-odd strangers and asking us what made us tic.
The work she was doing as an anthropologist for B&O involved asking us all the same things as she does in THIS thread. Please pay a visit and help her with her work.
Sorry it's a poor picture!. (Kikinoko)

At 12.30 we all sat down for a buffet in the canteen.
This was actually our "Last Supper". One or two of our party hadn't been able to stay for our meal at Venø Kro and some more members had to go shortly after. Now after this meal, we would all be going our seperate ways

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Up in the carpark the bus was waiting to take all my new friends away
There were hugs all round as we parted company. Ed had his Audi so he and Lee took me back to The Grand and we said our good-byes in the hotel carpark.
It was Tuesday afternoon and my flight wasn't until Wednesday afternoon so I had a lot of time to kill.
I went to my room and stood at the open mini-verandah door to have a cigarette and look down at the crossroads below. Law abiding people these Danish, you know.

I would like to say a big thankyou to Lee, Ed and Anders (Mr Ander(son)) for making this trip happen
Thankyou also to Bang and Olufsen for extending their hospitality to us in such a big way.
Thanks also go to my fellow pilgrims for contributing to my overall enjoyment of these most memorable days.
They are-:
Lee
Ed
Kevin Vinke
Martin (Beoice)
Patrik (Hebo)
Daniel Sirensjo
Christian Johnsen
Christian Haagerup
Steinar Danielsen
Anders Sallstrom (Mr Ander(son))
Emmanuel92
Fredrik Fridsten
Guy Hui
Stefan and Birgit
Tibor and Edina
Rachid (Archie)
Yann and Christian
Jos (Coolskin)
Carsten (c1010)
Philippe and Marko
Karsten (Kawo)
If your name isn't on the list, let me know and I will add it.
Special thanks to all who took the time to read this lengthy thread and make such favourable comments on it. (That includes you, Puncher!)

THE END

Andy T.

Congratulations and well done Andy on such a fantastic thread. I can't remember when there was such compulsive reading on BeoWorld.

Agree with Graham.  Thanks, Andy.

Thank you very much for this enjoying story Andy

Marcus 

Thanks Andy, and well done!

jandyt:

After we had finished eating and the Beo5 had been passed around numerous times, one of our members pointed out the aging B&O sound system (can't remember which model)  that was in use in the restaurant. We were pleased to note that the Beo5 controlled it as if they were contemporaries!

It was a Beocenter 8500.

Excellent Andy makes the trip live again!

thanks,

Kevin 

jandyt:

.......... (That includes you, Puncher!)

 Ta mate!

I would suggest that this gets compiled into an article as a permanent record. Can you do that Lee?

Thanx very very much Andy for this great story