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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Pring" <markpringnz@...>
To: <LSF5275@...>; <mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Chamberlin Rivera for sale


> Do you not like Chamberlins? I have never seen or
> played one and have only heard them on Richard
> Thompson and Harry Nilsson CDs. The sound certainly is
> different but not in a way I can easily explain, I
> really like it but if offered a choice between a
> chamberlin and a tron would take the tron, unless of
> course it was the rivera/riviera in which case I would
> play it continuously for several months and then sell
> it to buy an M5000!


Mark

When did Nilsson use a Chamberlin? I only know of his Mellotron work on
'Nilsson Schmilsson' and 'Pussy Cats'. Or were they actually Chamby?

Andy T.