My Mellotron (the old Earth and Fire one) was kinda scary when I got it. I was told it was stored in some sort of chicken barn. It sure smelled like it, and there were various assorted droppings in the bottom of it. Strangely enough, the mechanics and electronics (and tapes!) were in pretty good shape.
Ben
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 19:39, Berington Van Campen vcmusicorp1@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Thank you, Ben. It happens. Hopefully he can clear it out easily and it goes no further than that.
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> It's ALMOST (not quite, I'd guess) as bad as mice living in your Mellotron! I like mice an' all that, but there's better housing for 'em elsewhere, right?
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> Speaking of the CMaj 7th chord that's "scary," once many years ago, I put together an original tape of creepy, spooky music for Halloween, to play loudly enough it would be audible outside our open apartment door. At the time, we lived in a great little compound in Hollywood, with single & double-story apartments all opening into a central courtyard, perfect for parties and Halloweenies and other such madness. (We even called it "Rancho Beyondo" & to this day, some of those neighbors are still best friends.)
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> So my tape was LOTS of Mellotron, with MiniMoog, lots of effects, with spooky, echoey vocal stuff added, I'm sure. Our problem was that my wife & I didn't have anyone come to our door, though we saw them outside in the courtyard. We finally went out & asked our neighbors if they were getting kids at their doors. They all were, but they explained to us that my music was scaring them and no one dared knock! HA! I did it a little "too well," I guess. I turned it off... we started getting Trick-or-Treaters almost right away. Hmmm...
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> Mellotron's a very powerful instrument! (-:
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> Cheers!
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