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Subject: Re: Busking with mellotrons

From: "James Bailey" <jimab@rogers.com>
Date: 2008-04-04

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Wallis
<markstuartwallis@...> wrote:
>
>
> Not yet! Great idea though. I'd love to busk with the Theremin but
it's liable to get me stabbed in Birmingham.

I once busked here in Toronto with my theremin and electric guitar
during a street festival. Each went into a channel of a walkman
cassette and the output to a pair of speakers mounted, using the
magnets, to a metal light standard. The theremin, a home-cobbled unit
sold by SWTP, was played as I usually do - with my feet.

I managed to survive without involuntary perforations, though did get
many strange looks, and someone asking if I was from another planet.

To Mark P.: All I can say is "good bloody luck". Oh, that and "are you
bloody mad???". ;-)

Jim Bailey