On Sunday, March 7, 2004, at 07:05 PM, Paul Marshall wrote:
> Evening all, a rare post from me:
>
> Look inside the cover of Mr Wakeman's 'Six Wives' LP at the shameless
> pornographic display of keyboards. For the benefit of the uninitiated,
> each of Rick's keyboards is labelled. Can anyone tell me what is a
> 'Mellotron 400-D' or why it's written there? (I assume these were
> standard 400's as it's 1972).
>
> Interesting to note also the tape frame descriptions:
> 'Brass/Strings/Flutes' on one unit and 'Sound Effects/Vocals/Vibes' on
> t'other.
>
> Cheers
> Paul Marshall
> M400 #1380 'Flutes/Strings/Vocals' (hopefully getting an 'SM' suffix
> this summer)
The "D" probably stands for defective -- in Wakeman-speak...
Rick