The Mellotron Group

I'd bet there are a lot of folks on this list that are, or were,
Volkswagen owners.  I'm talking about the aircooled variety.  If you did
not maintain them, you were hosed.
 
John
#911

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From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Brumm
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:34 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron film in London...


  

"Mellotrons should be like Harleys"......Great analogy Frank!! 

From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lsf5275@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:14 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@ya hoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron film in London...

Clay, 

Before we close out this subject, I want to say that some of Chris'
points were well made. I too think Dianna should have further
investigated the background a little more. It's not just about Harry
Chamberlin or Chilton & his partner Irving Talentmaker. There's so much
more...

I would have liked to see the film include more on what lead up to using
recording tape to play back other peoples instruments. Perhaps a small
section explaining how recording tape stores and plays back sound.
Actually, I've always wondered how they get the oxide to stick to the
tape. Oh, and how the oxide was invented... who thought that up?

When one thinks about Harry Chamberlin, who doesn't wonder about that
garage where he made his first instruments. Who built the garage? Did
Harry's wife (Ethel) ever yell at him to stop fooling with his
inventions and wash up for lunch?

And Optigans... They have to be in the film so that people know that
there was actually a shittier way to reproduce real instrument sounds
for playback on a keyboard than the Mellotron. Where's the fucking
perspective? How else would people actually know that Harry's technology
reached its pinnacle with the Mellotron and that any attempts to advance
beyond that were just a giant nosedive into a pile of crap.

God love the M4000, but it is, after all just a brand new Edsel with a
better motor, stickier tires and a substantially larger trunk (boot). *

So if your going to make a movie about Mellotron, fuck Kanye, tell us
more about something important, like how Harry Chamberlin came up with
the id e a to house the mechanics in a Formica box years before Jimmy
Moore stole the idea for his Mellotron.

Was Mattel the only toy maker to try to build a crappy Mellotron rip
off, or was Hasbro thinking of getting into the business as well?
Where's the research I ask you? Where is the perspective.

Do you realize that there's video out there of Mattias Olsen playing
wine glasses on his Mellotron? Where does anyone thank Ben F**king
Franklin for actually playing music on real wine glasses 250 years
before Mattias even existed? Where's the perspective?

Mellotrons should be like Harleys... Only old fuckers should have one.

Frank

My Mellotron



My Harley (Yeah, it's a Shovel Head)

* I love mine so no one freak out.

In a message dated 9/29/2009 10:42:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ecclesreinson@rogers.com <mailto:ecclesreinson@rogers.com>  writes:

	  

	--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com> , Chris Dale wrote: 
	> You're lucky I'm not the moderator here. Your sneaky dishonest
ass would be gone.
	
	I am BORED to death with this story Chris. Please take your
issue with Mattias offline. Nobody gives a shit about it here but you.
	
	I will not be removing anyone from this group. Mattias is
welcome to post messages here anytime. Hopefully you haven't frightened
him away.
	
	Clay