Mellotronists

welcome!

and your english is just fine ignacio.
even better than some of us for which
it is supposed to be a first language.

let us know when your new tron arrives!

...jeff

[for some reason unix pine refused to include the
text to which i am replying-happens sometimes-sorry]

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On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 09:57  pm, Ignacio Nieto Carvajal wrote:

> Hello mellotronists:
>
> I am new in the list. I have acquired a new Mellotron Mark VI 
> recently...

Wa-HEY!!

Well done Nacho, and welcome to the group!
A Mellotron at 24 is some acievement!... I was 25, but Mellotrons were 
worth arond $200 at the time!

> Best wishes for all and please excuse my bad english.

You wait until you read my Spanish!

Best,

C

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On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 09:28  am, Ignacio Nieto Carvajal wrote:

> El sáb, 06-03-2004 a las 09:40, Colin Crawford escribió:
>
> Well done Nacho, and welcome to the group!
> A Mellotron at 24 is some acievement!... I was 25, but Mellotrons 
> wereworth arond $200 at the time!
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> 200$!!!!! I can't believe it! I sometimes think I MUST invent a 
> time-machine so i can go back to the 60's (and maybe stay there 
> <image.tiff>). For the price i think you are talking about that time, 
> don't you?

No!

This was 1988!!!

C

http://www.s-club.co.uk
        Sundae Club*
    [there ain't no party]

On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 09:28  am, Ignacio Nieto Carvajal wrote:

> El sáb, 06-03-2004 a las 09:40, Colin Crawford escribió:
>
> Well done Nacho, and welcome to the group!
> A Mellotron at 24 is some acievement!... I was 25, but Mellotrons 
> wereworth arond $200 at the time!
>
>

Colin Crawford has just noticed his typing errors in the above, which 
proves that his command of ENGLISH is inferior to that of our new 
Spanish member!

It's early, I'm not yet awake!!

C

http://www.s-club.co.uk
        Sundae Club*
    [there ain't no party]

On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 10:10  am, Ignacio Nieto Carvajal wrote:
>
> Um... you are right, in the 60's they must cost much much more :-$. So 
> you are not THAT old, jejeje. But in 1988 getting a working mellotron 
> must have been a complete adventure.


You're right!

My first one was scruffy but worked reasonably well. I bought it at a 
shop called the Music & Hi-Fi Exchange in Kentish Town Road in North 
London for £120. I then saw an advert for a (badly!!) restored 'Tron 
once owned by Manfred Mann's Earthband for £400. This one came with a 
couple of frames with sax sounds as well as the standard frame, so I 
sold my original for what I paid for it and thought I'd done well! The 
second machine never really worked very well, and one tape was missing 
in the standard frame.

As Martinge will testify, a couple of years of high interest rates at 
the bank and ill health meant that  needed to sell my second 'Tron in 
around 1990 to pay a mortgage payment on my house.
Ouch...... Les Bradley and Martin bought it (telling me I was mad to 
sell it!!) and that machine was later restored (PROPERLY!) and became 
the main Mellotron featured on the "Rime" album.

I always kept in touch with Martin, and much later, after years of 
Tronless existence, a night at a Julian Cope gig inspired me to bite 
the bullet and buy a fab restored Streetly machine (viewable on the 
'pics' page of http://www.technostalgia.org ) Very lovely and now part 
of the family!!

You'll have a lifetime of fun with yours!!

C

http://www.s-club.co.uk
        Sundae Club*
    [there ain't no party]

El s\ufffdb, 06-03-2004 a las 10:24, Colin Crawford escribi\ufffd:


>         200$!!!!! I can't believe it! I sometimes think I MUST invent
>         atime-machine so i can go back to the 60's (and maybe stay
>         there<image.tiff>). For the price i think you are talking
>         about that time,don't you?
> 
> 
> No!
> 
> This was 1988!!!


Um... you are right, in the 60's they must cost much much more :-$. So
you are not THAT old, jejeje. But in 1988 getting a working mellotron
must have been a complete adventure.

Nacho.

El s\ufffdb, 06-03-2004 a las 11:04, Colin Crawford escribi\ufffd:

> You're right!
> 
> My first one was scruffy but worked reasonably well. I bought it at
> ashop called the Music & Hi-Fi Exchange in Kentish Town Road in
> NorthLondon for \ufffd120. I then saw an advert for a (badly!!) restored
> 'Trononce owned by Manfred Mann's Earthband for \ufffd400. This one came
> with acouple of frames with sax sounds as well as the standard frame,
> so Isold my original for what I paid for it and thought I'd done well!
> Thesecond machine never really worked very well, and one tape was
> missingin the standard frame.
> 


That would be almost imposible here... finding a mellotron M400... (and
restored! nothing less). I think I can count with the fingers of my
hands the mellotrons sold here in the 70's, so the only way for us
spanish to get one seems to get a new mark VI :-(.
The same happens with other vintage machines as vox organs, hammonds,
etc...


> You'll have a lifetime of fun with yours!!


Well, I hope so :-).