I think I have seen a Hohner Pianet N on top of the Mellotron used by David Cross in some of those period piccies.
I have a love/hate relationship with Pianets. Great sound, crap to play.
msw x
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> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: tomdcour@amnh.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:44:14 -0400
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] King Crimson's Exiles-piano or Tron?
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> I’ve seen it sitting on top of his mellotron in 73-74- I remember thinking it was a Hohner pianet but I could be wrong.
> I used to play my Rhodes through a roland funny cat that did fuzz and harmonic shifts-fun.
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> I remember seeing Fripp play what looked to be an Italian electronic
> piano or some other small keyboard sometimes run through a fuzzbox.
> That was during the Larks's Tongue tour. On the recordings I have
> heard what sounds very much like a Rhodes through distortion box ( a
> classic and rarely discussed technique, killer on power chords).
>
> best
>
> gino
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> On 7/24/08, Mike Dickson > wrote:
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>> Andy Thompson wrote:
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>> KC pedant mode on:
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>> Mark Charig didn't play the cello on Red. In fact Sid Smith never managed
>> to find out who played it, although he managed to talk to almost everyone
>> else who has ever been involved with the band.
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>> KC pedant mode off:
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>> Mike
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mark Pring
>> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] King Crimson's Exiles-piano or Tron?
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>> Right for once, it was a real piano played by John Wetton and not credited.
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>> Mark
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>> Lots of uncredited stuff on those albums - David Cross' flute parts, also to
>> be heard on live stuff from the period (confirmed by DC, FWIW), Marc
>> Charig's cello on 'Red'...
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>> Andy T.
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>> --
>> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
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>> Free Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
>> Or http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
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