Come on, gents, don't go all wobbly on me. Jimmy, you certainly know that I can be extremely caustic when I want to be, and my last email was a very calm presentation. The fact is, you substantially altered my analogy to make it encompass your point when you were talking about a very different situation from what I described. I would LOVE to find a venue hospitable to the right style of music that was large enough, secure enough, and with enough help for me to properly handle my instrument and get it through a performance and back home safe and sound. Unfortunately, I'm in a market where I'm in the largest city for 200 miles, and there's only 400,000 here. I wouldn't take a Stradivarius to a hoedown. And David, somebody who has been on this list for as long as you have should know that the most regular commenters are pretty hip to keyboard technology and to not go all pedantic. If I wanted to burn either of you verbally, I would have phrased things quite differently. Once again, my original point was that Memotrons are not Mellotrons, but under certain circumstances would make a useful substitute, just like a digital grand piano. The instrument is just what it was designed to be, and for as long as the designers have been dribbling out information, it's clear that this is exactly what they wanted it to be. I find it hard to believe that they aren't hoping for some kind of success and to move at least a couple of thousand units a year for a good while. It will take a lot of units sold to recoup what they must have spent to develop it so I think they are serious about making this instrument. As far as why we own the real ones? Because of that magnificent sound. Yeah, history is cool, but it's the sound. I do suspect that the originals are somebody going to be vastly more valuable than they are now, but that's not the reason I keep mine and keep hoping to acquire more. It's the sound.
By the way, Jimmy, congratulations on a nice piece of American metal. Being a '69 Mach owner, you are certainly aware of the difference in value that model can have based on engine/drivetrain/transmission/options, and know how much more, say, a '69 Shelby GT 500 with a CobraJet, a four-speed, and all the options would be. That car could put your kids through college and buy a new home, and you definitely would have to treat it like gold unless you were made of money, right? Speaking of old iron, there's a '70 Riviera GS around here that is just killing me, if it just comes down a bit more...
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