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Mike

PS: My condolences about Moffat.

tony wrote:
>
> Welcome back Mike!
>  
> Tony Moffett
> U.S.A.
> Ancestral home is Moffat Scotland :-)
> Going there this coming April.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Mike Dickson <mailto:mike.dickson@gmail.com>
>     *To:* newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>     <mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:12 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [newmellotrongroup] 10 Worst Keyboards
>
>     I would concur re the M1. I had one for about three months and
>     found it
>     the most utterly impossible thing to program. The only good thing
>     I have
>     to say about it is that I managed to sell it at a profit.
>
>     Mike
>
>     jeffc@netaxs.com <mailto:jeffc@netaxs.com> wrote:
>
>     > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, mellotronist wrote:
>     >
>     > > Fender Rhodes. I have never hated an instrument with keys as
>     much as
>     > I hate those things.
>     >
>     > i'd have to disagree, IMHO, of course.
>     > with all the lame crap instruments out there, that would
>     > not make my worst 10.
>     > i find playing a rhodes a quite organic experience.
>     > plug it into a phaser and i think they sound even better.
>     >
>     > i vote for the korg M-1.
>     > the very definition of "dross".
>     > did anyone EVER actually program one, or did EVERYONE just
>     > use the presets... i bet out of the thousands sold, only
>     > a handful ever had their presets altered...
>     >
>     > ...jeff
>     >
>     > > ----- Original Message -----
>     > > From: MAinPsych@aol.com <mailto:MAinPsych%40aol.com>
>     <mailto:MAinPsych%40aol.com>
>     > > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>     <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>
>     > <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>
>     > > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:35 PM
>     > > Subject: [newmellotrongroup] 10 Worst Keyboards
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Today there was a link on AOL titled, "The Ten Worst Keyboards of
>     > All Time". To my disappointment, it was about PC keyboards;
>     however,
>     > it got me to thinking that we've talked about cool keyboards (our
>     > kind, of course), but I don't remember any exchanges about the
>     worst.
>     > Sure to be some controversy. Any takers?
>     > >
>     > > 1. The Birotron (cool in concept; dismal in execution)
>     > > 2. Any pre-M1 Chamberlin (Excedrin cycling headache # infinity)
>     > > 3.
>     > > 4.
>     > > 5.
>     > > 6.
>     > > 7.
>     > > 8.
>     > > 9.
>     > > 10.
>     >
>     >
>
>     -- 
>     Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
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Mike Dickson, Edinburgh