mr dickson, now you should use some sort of secretly coded insult to our list moderator or some other such thing to get yourself booted from the group - we can all relive the childish drama that killed the last list!
i kid of course.
you were specifically and deliberately called a liar without instigation, other than stating your opinion, one which many here know that, while snarky at times [in a good and humourous way IMHO], is at the very least well informed.
jeez.
i go away for a couple days and all hell breaks loose.
peace boys and girls.
please?
...jeff
--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Birotron on ebay
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 7:25 PM
> Dave -
>
> You're quite right. It was all a figment of my
> imagination. Playing a
> Birotron was the highlight of my entire life and was an
> experience so
> intense I'd happily give up food and oxygen for a week
> just to re-live.
> Indeed, I'd happily crawl for 100 miles over broken
> glass just to wank
> over the shadow of a Birotron, dreaming of its lightning
> fast Pratt and
> Reade keyboard action. I will further add that all the
> clattering from
> the arse end of the Birotron doesn't happen and that in
> fact the
> mechanism is so silent it stilled the myriad chattering
> voices in my
> head that made me think I was playing the thing when
> it's obvious that I
> was not.
>
> Thanks for clearing all this up.
>
> Mike
>
> will davis wrote:
> >
> >
> > Mike....I have played a pipe organ and I have played a
> Birotron and I
> > can safely say that you obviously never actually
> played a
> > Birotron.....why are you lying about it ? The key
> action was
> > lightning fast; it was made by Pratt and Reade, the
> same company that
> > made keyboards for Moog and many others. If you did
> indeed play one
> > and maybe you are just prejudiced for some reason, Id
> be curious to
> > know exactly when, where and who owned it ! dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > ∗From:∗ Mike Dickson
> <mailto:mike.dickson@gmail.com>
> > ∗To:∗ newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> > ∗Sent:∗ Monday, April 13, 2009 5:42 AM
> > ∗Subject:∗ Re: [newmellotrongroup] Birotron on
> ebay
> >
> > Played it, hated it.
> >
> > The keyboard is heavier than a direct action pipe
> organ, thanks to
> > the
> > keys being sprung with something that could have
> been used to
> > catapult
> > boulders over a castle wall 600 years ago. Worse
> than that is the
> > noise
> > from the mechanics of the machine. Dear god...all
> those little 8
> > track
> > cartridges clattering away constantly. I never
> thought much of the
> > fidelity either, although that may have had
> something to do with the
> > state of the recordings.
> >
> > Even worse though is that it all works on tape
> loops, thereby losing
> > that characteristic attack that actually signals
> what a sound
> > is.Without
> > it (say) a solo cello and a solo voice sound
> amazingly similar,
> > although
> > with the reproduction problems the Birotron had
> it's amazing it
> > sounded
> > like anything at all. It's better than the
> Orchestron (which seems to
> > have a library of sine waves, clicks and white
> noise) but not by much.
> >
> > tronbros@aol.com <mailto:tronbros%40aol.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > It's the one we restored about 7 years
> ago!
> > >
> > > M
> > >
> > > ∗Streetly Electronics - All Things
> Mellotronic
> > > www.mellotronics.com
> <http://www.mellotronics.com/
> > <http://www.mellotronics.com/>>∗
> > > US Sales East: Jimmy Moore JMoore6397@aol.com
> > <mailto:JMoore6397%40aol.com>
> <http://JMoore6397@aol.com/
> > <http://JMoore6397@aol.com/>>
> > > US Sales West: Paul Cox pjc56@earthlink
> <mailto:pjc56@earthlink>
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
>
> --
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