Mellotronists

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Ken Leonard <ken@k...> wrote:
> At 11:05 AM 5/25/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hello, Tom Moravansky here from Maryland.
> 
> Hello, Tom.  Welcome to Mellotroniacs Anonymous.  I'm Ken.
> 
Thanks for the warm welcome all around.

> 
> >Interesting to see some
> >of the same folks from other esoteric lists here as well.
> 
> Mellotrons *esoteric*?  Hmmmm...I don't know whether to be offended
> or not.  Isn't that a nice way to say "screwball"?
> 

My comment does deserve a bit more info.  In particular, I saw some 
folks on here that are also owners/listmembers of another British 
product - the Notron MIDI sequencer.  Virtually opposite ends of the 
music spectrum.  Given that there's only 2000+ Mellotrons and a 
couple hundred Notrons in existence, the overlap is probably small.


> >Has anyone compared tapes from Mellotron.com and Streetly?
> 
> I hinted at an answer to this a while ago, if I recall, and in a
> very nice way, buried in another post.  Somehow we avoided
> Armageddon, and the world went on.
> 

Thanks for all the private replies.  I do agree that it's wonderful 
that the Mellotron is currently being supported by not 1, but 2 
different groups and we can all benefit from that support (speaking 
as an owner of many synths whose manufacturers are long gone).


> Yeah, there are somewhat controversial subjects out here.  The top
> 2 deal with Watcher 

Fine w. me - I'll stay out of that since I love listening to Genesis 
and other stuff but have no desire to recreate it in any way.

> 
> And after the usual flame wars, we then get all hell-bent over...
> 

I 'retired' from Analogue Heaven and other lists because of the 
constant flamewars.  I won't intentionally start one here.