If #354 (or #254 ... benefit of the doubt) really was one of the regular
white-coated units that were seen touring with Crimson in the early years,
then ...
Either way it would be a fascinating coincidence.
How does your recollection of the M400 you carpeted compare to the Islands
Tron depicted at
http://www-dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/Cervero/crimtron.htm? You
say the cabinet was in poor shape when you received the unit ...
extensive-touring-with-frustrated-band-members-poor, perhaps?
Now, doth the craftsman recognize his work?
Dagfinn
>From: kinchmusic@...
>To: mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: Fw: [Mellotronists] Crimson M400: #254 or #354?
>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:52:47 EDT
>
>Strange on this.
>Before this list, back in 1981 I owned a white m400 which I bought with the
>cabinet in pretty poor shape. So i hit on the idea to carpet the outside in
>an
> unusual industrial blue. Edging the corners and sides with alloy/plastic
>strip.
>Could be a coincidence, or more likely, I think that unknowingly I let this
>historic machine through my grasp when I sold it a couple of years later.
>Had
>no record of the serial number either. Damn!
>Andy K. Serial number Andy 2 (you were here first Andy T)
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