From sdiedrichsen@b-three.de Fri May 16 08:17:08 2003
Subject:Re: slightly [OT] France Voltage

> Thanks for that, too! I did not want to take my Organ with me (its too
> big for our small VW +4 Persons + Carriage... And, besides, I had to
> take the leslie, too :-)  It´s just for holidays... :) But your
> statement is interesting enough... I always wonder why the hell they
> don´t use those cables with a plug on EVERY music equipment... Mixer,
> Amps, Instruments which need power plugs..

Cutting cost.
But to me it seems, that more and more equipment is equipped with an
IEC320 socket.
And if not, why not put it in?

> . those with the cable coming
> out have perhaps two meters, then you have to get "in the wall"... If
> they all had those plugs with the three wholes (the triangle like, know
> what i mean... not Schuko!) you could easily have 5 types of cable in
> youg gigbag and would´t need twohunderdthousend meters of extra cable
> to
> reach the next power plug...  btw, whats this thing calles in english,
> its where the power comes out of the wall... the thing to plug youf
> plug
> in... know what i mean? :-) sorry for bad english... too lazy to look
> in
> dictionary.. :)

http://dict.leo.org/
?search=Steckdose&searchLoc=0&relink=on&spellToler=standard§Hdr=on&t
ableBorder=1&cmpType=relaxed&lang=en

All the best,

Steffan

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