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Subject: FW: Mellotron

From: "Andy Thompson" <andy.thompson@...>
Date: 2002-03-12

Chaps
 
Just been sent this - any ideas, anyone?

Andy T.
M400 #1145

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ellitel [mailto:aopf90@...]
Sent: 12 March 2002 12:42
To: andy.thompson@...
Subject: Mellotron

Hello Andy

In the early nineties I worked at Thames Tv Teddington. In the old tape library there was a Mellotron. It was loaded with sound effects and it worked albeit in need of a service. One day my boss Brian Harper said if you want that Mellotron take it now or I’ll skip it. There was no way I could get it home and even if I could I had no room. I rang a dealer in Charing Cross who collected it straight away and gave me £800! Now I know from his keenness and the amount he gave me it was worth a tad more.

I regret that I had not taken it home but I tell myself that at least it might be restored and looked after. I would love to know where it ended up. I don’t recall the dealers name – it may have been Macari’ s but I am not sure. If you can help I would love to know who owns it – It was almost certainly destined for restoration.

At least I saved it from the tip!

 

Simon Ellis