Thanks Thomas, I am not sure about buying the book, having already over spent this years mellotron budget. I can sympathize with you over the chamberlin, in my dreams I have a Rivera ( Riviera ) which works perfectly, nobody has ever offered to sell me one!
I am beginning to wonder if keyboards are addictive, I've gone from a just Yahmaha PSR 295 to an M400 and a piano and I'm looking for a Korg xd5 or an X50. And I can barely play!
Mark
--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Thomas C. Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org> wrote:
From: Thomas C. Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] new mellotron book
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 2:19 PM
To be fair , i expected it to be one thing and it is something different.
i expected more detailed photos of mellotrons, and especially
chamberlins, maybe some of the the manufacturing process rather than the
celebrities that used them. I hoped for more technical information about
the recordings. I realize now that what I was hoping for was a 600 page
hardcover version of Frank Sammagio's book. The interviews are interesting
and there are somethings I hadn't heard over the years.
I wish there was a Chamberlin book even a small one- I often wish I had
gotten out to Harry's place and had him make me one. There was a guy in a
band "Rat Race Choir" who had an M2 and gave me the ph# et all but I never
got around to it (no $)
Okay, honestly I also feel that the book omitted certain things from the
American side some of which are of personal import, but I don't want to go
into sour grapes.
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> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] new mellotron book
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] new mellotron book
2008-07-31 by Mark Pring