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Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:53 AM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: Mellotron disaster
OK...........
Whilst on me summer hols I received an email to say that a Chamberlin 600 MusicMaster had been found in the basement of a house in a fashionable suburb of Birmingham, England - our home town. I told John excitedly, returned home ten days later to find out that the lady of the house had scrapped it in the interim 'cos she didn't want an old organ cluttering the place. If Thomas Hardy was still around I'd submit it as the plot for a miserable novel.
Martin
I've deliberately not put this info up, 'cos I'm still too upset about it. What's the chances of a mate of a mate moving into a new house and finding a bloody Musicmaster 600 in the basement? In Britain? And then before he can get to it this bloke's ignorant (much spleen venting and abuse deleted) wife SCRAPS the fucking thing? OK, it was in terrible condition, but I'd have been up there like a shot (less than 150 miles). I'm absolutely gutted.
Andy T.
p.s. FWIW, if anyone wants to get all the phone nos.of scrap merchants in Shirley, near Solihull (Birmingham), good luck.