Mellotronists

Short form:

When I was married, the house next door to ours came up for sale, cheap, and 
we bought it so I could have real studio space.  My ex decided to redecorate 
and repaint.  The house was older and had a gas floor-furnace for heat.  She 
wanted to paint the walls, and laid dropcloths which were big, heavy old 
polyester curtains, along the walls to cover the carpet.  She covered the 
floor furnace with one of the curtains.  Sometime in the overnight hours, 
the floor furnace kicked on.  The curtain on it burned slowly, and like a 
fuse, lit all of the other ones in the room, melting them and the carpet 
together into a crackly, smelly black mass.  The house was tightly closed 
up, and what little active fire there was extinguished itself, but the 
smoldering of the polyester curtains and the carpet they were covering 
filled the house with acrid black smoke, still hanging in the air the next 
day when I went inside, and all of my equipment was covered with black film, 
greasy and sticky to the touch.  My tech said it would be impossible to 
guarantee anything would stay working even if he cleaned it all, and his 
cleaning and repairing would cost as much as replacements.  We fought with 
insurance for several months, and I eventually got all new stuff, total 
payout for gear was about $28,000, payout for cleaning and repair on the 
house about $11,000.  Insurance company dropped us shortly afterwards. I 
won't be marrying again. I'm very thankful that I didn't own my Mellotron 
yet.  I'd still be in prison.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Dale" <chris.dale@...>
To: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>; "Mellotronists" 
<Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] K1r


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> From: "stevetebble" <stevetebble@...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 3:19 PM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] K1r
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>> Yes, that's the one.  I've got two now, I've had a K1 for years and
>> have now bought a K1r to go with it.  So now all the presets can go on
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>> 3Viols" but it's not quite there yet.
>> Flute sounds quite good, but then it would, it's just a flute sample.
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