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Hi Jerry and all,

I could claim that I put the typo in there on purpose to catchplagiarists! Wow, all this time and I never noticed that. Sometimeseven your best friends won't tell you :-)

I don't really have a problem with the copying. I figure it is a bit ofa compliment. It doesn't take anything away from the website. It mightbe different if I was making money from the site.

Many years ago now, I found that the entry on Mellotrons andChamberlins at 120 Yearsof Electronic Music was almost wholly lifted from my site. I wroteto the guy who admitted it, but it took him a long time to replace thetext with a paraphrased version. I would have been a lot happier with alink to the original site.

Bob S.


Jerry Korb wrote:

 

Bob Snyder wrote:

Gee, the description onebayhas a familiar ring to it. Oh yeah, most of it is ripped off from myold website!Oh well, not the first time :-)   -- Bob S.

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Greetings Bob and everyone, eBay has little tolerance for sellerswhouse
others' photos and material verbatim.   You could email thatseller and get him
to change the wording .   If not, you have a legal rightto ask eBay to shut him down.

Here's the eBay listing listing :

"This is a tape-based analog replay keyboard that  first becamepoplular in the sixties.
These fascinating instruments, originally made famous by groups likeThe Moody Blues,
The Beatles, and Genesis, are enjoying a re-discovery forty years laterby a new
generation of musicians and listeners."

And here's Bob's Website text :

"Welcome to the original Web page devoted to Mellotrons andChamberlins,
the tape-based analog replay keyboards that first became poplular inthe sixties.
These fascinating instruments, originally made famous by groups likeThe Moody Blues,
The Beatles, and Genesis, are enjoying a re-discovery forty years laterby a new
generation of musicians and listeners."

Notice the spelling error of  "popular."  That clinches it, Bob .  Go get 'im!

--JK--   (didn't have text lifted, but arches lifted once....ahem)