Mellotronists

I suppose that it's a common tech practice, the
naming of things.  I know many engineers who name the
damnedest things.  Usually stuff that is mysterious
and quirky.  
     I, myself, have an Echoplex named Justine, my
multitrack machine goes by Lucinda, a 1920's wax
cylinder recorder that's often referred to as Richard
(or Dick as in Dictaphone) and a 50's Harmony acoustic
that came with the name Poonch scrawled clumsily in
sharpy on the back.  Humanization is an odd thing.

Jack Younger
EMI103S "The Bastard, The Promiscutron, The EMI'tron" 


--- mellotrongirl <mellotrongirl@...> wrote:

> Gosh...I didn't realise a number of you have names
> for your units.
> Sure I knew of the Pindertron and a few famous ones,
> but what kind of
> a unique name can you give yr standard stock M-400?
> Maybe I'll call
> mine Vinson Massif cause it's big and white. Or
> something that
> revolves around the little penguin feet. I thought
> naming things mass
> produced like this didn't go much beyond naming
> Volkswagens.
> 
> Grandma had a '52 VW Bug named Gus (short for
> Gesundheit), and I had a
> '64 VW bus named Amon Duul 3. AD3 died of colon
> cancer in 1976. Also
> had a blue '64 Pontiac Bonneville Safari SW tank
> drubbed Tarkus, and
> another car with a dent smack dab in the middle of
> the front end that
> caused the headlights to cross beams before hitting
> the road. Despite
> this, they hit both high and low beam perfectly, so
> I didn't adjust it
> (that one was Cross-Eyed Mary).
> 
> When I brought my M-400 home in the back of a pickup
> camper, I hit
> some black ice. I figured if the 'tron wasn't back
> there over the rear
> wheels, I would have lost traction and spun out big
> time, but then
> again--if I hadn't gone out to pick it up, I guess
> the slippery mishap
> wouldn't have happened in the first place.
> 
> ___________________________________________
> 
> Why do people say "VW" instead of "Volkswagen?" It
> takes one extra
> syllable to say VW. What a waste of hot air in these
> energy-conscious
> times.
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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