Re: [newmellotrongroup] Genesis MkII brass
2010-06-18 by Tom Doncourt
... Re: [newmellotrongroup] Genesis MkII brass Hi John, Ive heard a MkII and an m400 side by side through the same amplifier and didnt really hear a profound
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Re: Tron on eBay
2010-06-18 by Daniel
Here is the reply I received following my queries about the LA e-Bay tron: Serviced by a local LA-tech, who owns several, and has serviced at least 20
Genesis MkII brass
2010-06-18 by md1jkb
Hi all, One thing that has puzzled me for a while that someone might be able to answer is that on early genesis live recordings eg the 70 s box set the brass
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-17 by David Jacques
I used to perform with a MiniMoog in the 70 s and 80 s... I cannot tell you how many times I had to tune that thing during a performance. I have never had
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-17 by tony1
Analog, analog, analog! Tony ... From: ClayE To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:46 AM Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re:
Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-17 by ClayE
With digital gear the troubles are almost always a sudden and total failure like no output or hopelessly out of tune . The old electro-mechanical and
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-17 by Tom Doncourt
... Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972 It kind of amazed me to find that a world class, renowned group like the Band really didnt have the
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-17 by tronbros
London were the head office where the men in suits controlled the purse strings but not much else. Streetly manufactured and London sold. It was a working
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-17 by Chris Dale
It s a good performance. But for something like Green Eyed Lady - the original song has changing organ sounds, (drawbars in and out / percussion on / off) so
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Rick Blechta
... Right.
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by David Jacques
He is not using anything close to a modern clone... especially when he turns on his leslie effect... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fre89067f1g That being
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by djacques@csulb.edu
Yeah I know its Wright . Damn spell checker on my bb strikes again. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile ... From: lsf5275@aol.com Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010
Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Tron400
Dave, What do you think of the Korg Electro 3 s Hammond sound? Bernie
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by lsf5275@aol.com
Wright In a message dated 6/16/2010 2:50:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, djacques@csulb.edu writes: And there are the videos of recent Spooky Tooth concerts
The Moody Blues at The Isle of Wight festival 1970
2010-06-16 by kinchmusic@aol.com
Saw this on Sky Arts the other night. Amazing performance by Mike Pinder. His control of the tron was quite brilliant. I haven t seen much footage of the band
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by djacques@csulb.edu
And there are the videos of recent Spooky Tooth concerts where Gary Write is playing a Keytar using terrible Hammond sounds. Sad. Sent via BlackBerry from
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by lsf5275@aol.com
Everything bit of work Gary Schwartz (Sound Sales) ever did on a Mellotron that I have seen, terrible. Oddly, he seemed to enjoy autographing his work and all
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by tony1
Oh no that just wouldn t be right at all. None of it. Tony ... From: Gary Brumm To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:49 PM
RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Tron on eBay
2010-06-16 by Gary Brumm
That s it exactly Mike. We learned that the hard way with houses here in the US! Want to buy a $500,000 house for $200,000?....Isn t that a good
RE: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Gary Brumm
Thanks for the warning Chris :) Green Eyed Lady with a fake organ sound!!! Now that s like using an ARP String Ensemble to play In the Court of the Crimson
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Tron on eBay
2010-06-16 by Mike Dickson
Perhaps, but selling to the absurd is really what eBay is predicated upon. After all, was the whole edifice not founded on someone selling a broken laser
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Chris Dale
Dave - I know what you mean: I saw and met Jerry Corbetta of Sugarloaf and he was doing the same thing. He used one of those strap on 80 s style keyboards with
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Chris Dale
Martin: In my conversations with Wakeman (about the double tron / birotron) - he confirms exactly your observations. Mellotronics did not offer much
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by djacques@csulb.edu
I guess I am just to cynical regarding the education of the audience. I don t think most of them know the difference. I see it all the time when bands like
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by lsf5275@aol.com
The reality is not that they improve, necessarily, but that by playing them regularly, they remain in good working order. The motor needs to run, the bearings
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Chris Dale
Your right Dave, it s easier. I don t fault anyone for using samples live - not everyone can psychologically deal with the real things, and some may not want
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Chris Dale
Hi Gary: Well I believe it but only to a certain point. A band like Chicago, Fleetwood Mac or Mahogany Rush may have used it in the studio or rented one for
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by lsf5275@aol.com
So you ve relocated then? In a message dated 6/16/2010 3:27:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tronbros@aol.com writes: Alive and well and in Copenhagen, Martin
Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Tron400
Martin, What was the relationship between the London office and Streetly? Were they like the Sound Sales of England? Bernie
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by tronbros
The artists in the UK that liked their trons and those that didn t are split into two camps; those that dealt with the factory and those that dealt with
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by lsf5275@aol.com
Mike Pinder got his first Mark II used from the Employee s Lounge of the Avon Tire (Tyre) Company, as I recall. For years I would call around to every NTB (NTW
RE: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Gary Brumm
I used to travel with a C3 & two Leslie 122 s (probably 600lbs of wood and steel)......now I have an XK-3c (50 lbs.) and don t go anywhere... go
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by djacques@csulb.edu
You would have to be very brave to depend on a classic mellotron during a live performance. I own my mellotron as a collectors piece. I still play it in my
RE: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Gary Brumm
Come on Chris, you don t really believe that do you. Seriously....many the people who made the instrument famous could afford a boatload of these things IF
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by djacques@csulb.edu
What I really wonder is how many people could really afford a Mark II? If the 400 was unaffordable for 4000 dollars, who could afford at least twice that much
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-16 by Chris Dale
Most Mellotrons and especially Chamberlins were bought by studios unless the band had a record label willing to front the money for one. In the Chamberlins
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by lsf5275@aol.com
I had one for a period of time when I was around 20. I rented it for a while and then bought it for $1800.00 1972-1973. I think Jamie Robertson may own it
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by David Jacques
Some of my wealthy friends bought them. I remember one in particular... I used to rent it from him for some recording dates.
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by tony1
#510 was $1500 in 1975. Fully restored by John and Martin a few yrs ago. Have the big boy ordered, but keeping the M400. Tony ... From: Tron400 To:
Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by Tron400
#500, (alias #497) was $2900 around late 73. Caruso Music in New Haven found it for me at a music shop in Boston. Bernie
RE: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by Thomas C. Doncourt
I remember the price in 1973 being quoted to me at $4,000. Sam Ash music store had a sale for $3000 which is what I paid plus tax. I was working full time in a
RE: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by Bruce Daily
Hi all- Yeah, I also have one of the DMI pamphlets. I ordered the info in 1975, but the pamphlet I recieved was dated 1973, and quoted a $3950.00
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by Tom Doncourt
... Re: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972 Certain guitars seem to appreciate on that scale but not m400s for some reason. That s interesting. I
RE: [newmellotrongroup] Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by John Wright
That s interesting. I believe that would be about $24,000 (1967 =100) in today s dollars. That price is about $1,000 higher than a Hammond spinet in the
Price of Mellotron in 1972
2010-06-15 by partune
Seeing all the posts about the price of the Tron on eBay, I ve a copy of a letter I received in 1972 from DMI quoting a price on a new M400 as $3,500.00.
Re: Tron on eBay
2010-06-15 by Tron400
I missed this the first time I viewed the auction: When they were being manufactured, Mellotron M400s keyboards carried a retail price in the area of
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Off Topic but great entertainment none the less.
2010-06-15 by lsf5275@aol.com
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Visible Mellotron
2010-06-15 by Bruce Daily
Hi- After watching a few of their other videos, I appreciated the way they stayed with the Yes song themes, yet didn t copy them exactly. They are
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2010-06-15 by MAinPsych@aol.com
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2010-06-15 by lsf5275@aol.com
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