Mellotronists

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From: JS [mailto:jonesalley@sctelcom.net]
Sent: 26 September 2003 23:37
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] Bowie, look out...

In the midst of the weird life is throwing at me right now, a wonderful little moment - a friend of mine came to a gig last night, and while we were on break, he told me to come on out to the car. We went outside, and as he opened the car door, he said "I don't know if you've ever seen one of these, but I bought it at an auction for fifty cents thinking you might get a kick out of it." With that, he pulled a box out of a bag and gave it to me. In it was a Stylophone, in perfect and as near as I can tell, unused condition, in the original box, with the original booklets that came with it. Isn't life grand?

Jon E Salley

M400 #886

(and Stylophone!)

Mattias? Speak to us!

Andy T.

<<M400 #886 (and Stylophone!)>>

my 400, nr1098, has had a small white companion for a number of years now. 
they first duetted on "build", an epic piece on our album "borrowed atoms", and 
appeared live together at the october gallery in london in early 1997. I put 
the stylophone through a boss se70 effects unit with a bunch of pitch shifters; 
turned it into a church organ. when I opened the second set with this sound, 
I faced away from the audience for a few bars and then turned to reveal the 
source of this harmonious racket.
I traded a mint mono sgt pepper's for mine, and promptly lowered it an 
octave. the stylophone, not the album. 
if you want to disconnect the internal speaker and use it in line-out mode, 
you'll need a dummy load; around 75ohm seems to work.

duncan/r.m.i.