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Subject: [Mellotronists] Thanks

From: tron@...
Date: 2006-04-21

> Mike - Thanks for the info concerning the Crimson manuscripts. I based
> my guess that Fripp wrote at least a few of them, on comparing his name
> on the top of the manuscripts, with his signature on the "Exposure"
> album.You would know better then I, so thanks for the correction. Do you
> know who transcribed them?

It was Pope Gregory the Ninth.

OK. I have no idea.

> Concerning the ITCOTCK MK 2, I heard the going price was around
> $25,000.00 - a bit high in my book too, especially if it needed work.

Very high, I'd say.

> wonder: is there a way to restore an "important" 'Tron, while retaining
> it's status, and value?

Well, I played the 'Starless' Tron at the 'Night Watch' playback and
liked the fact that it looked like it had been savaged by a pack of
pissed-off wolfhounds, so maybe one way of doing it is to leave the
cabinet as it is. The rest of the instrument would have to be overhauled
unless you are wanting something that doesn't make a decent sound.

> Finally: "William Shatner... and the Mellotronic Philharmonic
> Orchestra"... perform the greatest "Prog Classics" of all time...
> available on K-Tel Records! What those "Prog Classics" are, I'll leave
> up to the group... just thinking of it makes my brain woozy!!!

'Mr Tambourine Man?... Mr Tambourine Man... Mr Tambourine Man!.... MR
TAMBOURINE MAN!!!!!!'

Crazy Bill.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/