Short form:
When I was married, the house next door to ours came up for sale, cheap, and
we bought it so I could have real studio space. My ex decided to redecorate
and repaint. The house was older and had a gas floor-furnace for heat. She
wanted to paint the walls, and laid dropcloths which were big, heavy old
polyester curtains, along the walls to cover the carpet. She covered the
floor furnace with one of the curtains. Sometime in the overnight hours,
the floor furnace kicked on. The curtain on it burned slowly, and like a
fuse, lit all of the other ones in the room, melting them and the carpet
together into a crackly, smelly black mass. The house was tightly closed
up, and what little active fire there was extinguished itself, but the
smoldering of the polyester curtains and the carpet they were covering
filled the house with acrid black smoke, still hanging in the air the next
day when I went inside, and all of my equipment was covered with black film,
greasy and sticky to the touch. My tech said it would be impossible to
guarantee anything would stay working even if he cleaned it all, and his
cleaning and repairing would cost as much as replacements. We fought with
insurance for several months, and I eventually got all new stuff, total
payout for gear was about $28,000, payout for cleaning and repair on the
house about $11,000. Insurance company dropped us shortly afterwards. I
won't be marrying again. I'm very thankful that I didn't own my Mellotron
yet. I'd still be in prison.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Dale" <chris.dale@...>
To: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>; "Mellotronists"
<Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] K1r
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> I lost it and all of my other gear by smoke damage
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> From: "stevetebble" <stevetebble@...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 3:19 PM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] K1r
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>> Yes, that's the one. I've got two now, I've had a K1 for years and
>> have now bought a K1r to go with it. So now all the presets can go on
>> one, and all my own sounds on the other. Still working on the "Tron
>> 3Viols" but it's not quite there yet.
>> Flute sounds quite good, but then it would, it's just a flute sample.
>> Steve.
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