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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The passing yesterday of Tom Doncourt

From: Steven Davies-Morris <sdavmor@systemstheory.net>
Date: 2019-03-21

I am a bit shocked actually.

Here's how to remember Tom.  A trip through his Tower studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAVgwZMuZwU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3ukng0VYfjLAWuT40rfxrZ4IpOfMyHNAVO4VpFFz8J9ueXyIP01SnedxU

On 3/21/19 9:06 AM, Bill Rudloff doctorwho8@aol.com [newmellotrongroup]
wrote:
>
> First Charles, now Tom.  This has not been a good week for the
> community. :(
> Bill Rudloff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Davies-Morris sdavmor@systemstheory.net
> [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 21, 2019 10:58 am
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] The passing yesterday of Tom Doncourt
>
> Tom's son posted to FB during my radio show that his dad had passed
> away.  Tom had just announced that his medical treatment had run its
> course and that he was going into hospice care with his time almost up.
> 24 hours later he was gone.  It was pulmonary fibrosis.   Some of you
> may recall him as the keys player in the 70s band Cathedral.  Not a
> successful band, but their influence on the resurgence of symphonic prog
> in Scandinavia was huge.  I always enjoyed Tom's in-studio videos with
> him rebuilding vintage keyboards.  RIP Tom.
>
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