Mellotronists

Mark Pring wrote:

> Do you  not like Chamberlins? I have never seen  or
> played one and have only heard them on Richard
> Thompson and Harry Nilsson CDs. The sound certainly is
> different but not in a way I can easily explain, I
> really like it but if offered a choice between a
> chamberlin and a tron would take the tron, unless of
> course it was the rivera/riviera in which case I would
> play it continuously for several months and then sell
> it to buy an M5000!

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Greetings Gang,  Been reading the latest posts, incl. the critique
of "Epsilon" (Ypsilon ) and the above. Incl.  the offensive
comments  from FS-VA.  Go easy on the caffeine, will 'ya Frank ?


Anyway, I have the orig. LP version of Ypsilon from the 70's.
As Ken Leonard indicated, it's mostly Tron on that version.
Not exactly a top-seller, but more an experiment with that instrument.
Much like some of the  Berlin-School copycat stuff heard on Starstreams.
.....it is what is is (was).....


I first heard/saw a Chamberlin (M1) at Pierre Veilleux's Montreal
apartment in 1997.  WOW ! was my first inpression . Later again in
2000 at Toronto, when Chris Dale brought his M1 to the Workshop.


....Finally, in 2006 , Ken/I  saw/heard the   Music Master 600 in Boston.
Chamberlins'  sound quality is quite nice.    Original recordings plus the
high-qual. heads were a great combo.   However the 600's pkg'g. left much
to be desired. The M1 was designed as well as it could be for the time.
The Riviera will hopefully make a wonderful addition to someone's
collection/studio ....Add some more zeroes to that $1800.00 figure , FS-VA.


Speaking of caffeine, it's 0430 here and my day's just beginning.  -- JK