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Subject: [Mellotronists] CHECK THIS OUT!

From: tron@...
Date: 2007-01-17

> I met Robert Fripp in Montreal in 1973. He was on his way into the
> CHOM studios with Ian Wallace and Peter Sinfield. I stopped to ask
> him about the mellotrons he'd used the evening before in a concert I
> attended (not having seen a 400 in the flesh before). He offered to
> sell me one of the two MkIIs he had for $3000.

Fripp phoned me about ten years ago. Among other things, he offered to
sell me the ItCotCK Mellotron Mk II for upwards of 20K-UKP. I politely
declined, having neither the money nor the wish nor the stupidity to do
such a thing.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/