What would you call music to a writer's soul? Is it the scratching of a pencil or the dip of a pen? How about the clacking of typewriter keys? The Hermes was created by the Paillard Company, which started out making music boxes in the early 19th Century. By 1900, the company had moved on to radios and record players. By 1920, typewriters were being produced in the factory at Yverdon. These typewriters were dubbed Hermes after the Greek god who served as the messenger of Olympus. Hermes typewriters have clicked and clacked to the words of William Gibson and Jack Kerouac. Many writers consider the machine the music maker to their souls.
It just so happens that we at SHOPitLA have an Hermes 3000. The Hermes 3000 is a Swiss-made typewriter first introduced in 1958. It sports nicely rounded corners and a lid that snaps down over the machine onto a base upon which the typewriter sits. What music will you play on it?
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