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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] A Question of ...switches?...no FAKE 'Tron here.

From: MAinPsych@...
Date: 2006-09-08

In a message dated 9/7/2006 7:44:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, Str03@... writes:

So, I was wondering if you 'Tron erudite know what Pinder is trying to do 4:03 minutes into this song...
 
The video clearly shows him starting to play a nice 'tron riff, then after a bit of strings...nothing happens - and he reaches for the controls on the left side of the console and makes some adjustment ...and then finishes the song nicely.
 
On this model...(MKII? ) I thought all the stuff on the left was that rhythm and fill stuff...not lead instrument channel selectors ....or did he have to hit the on/off switch?
It's called A MISTAKE.  Mike starts to go into the ending MkII riff prematurely on the RH keyboard and goes back to playing a lower register drone note on the LH keyboard as you can see him doing earlier in the song.  Yes, stock MkII's had rhythms and fills on the LH side;  Mike always had lead sounds on both keyboards.  The MkII with the cloth covered back panel he is playing is likely the one, I believe, that Jerry Korb is currently refurbishing.  (Jerry, can you confirm?)  I own the other known Pinderton, #134, and the third known one he had (with horizontal slots on the rear panel, in contrast to the vertical slots on mine), I think, was destroyed in the Indigo Ranch fire along with a MkV.  Anyone know otherwise?
 
Frank 1