Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

previous by date index next by date
previous in topic topic list next in topic

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: So what white?

From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com>
Date: 2009-10-21

   A 70's theme, huh?  I recently ran across some fine faux mahogany paneling at a salvage yard.  You know, the stuff with vertical black stripes?  Maybe apply some to a 'tron with a bit of stylish matching corner moulding...
 
   -Bruce D.
   #1221  (NO, NO, NO, please NOOO!!!)


--- On Tue, 10/20/09, fdoddy@aol.com <fdoddy@aol.com> wrote:

From: fdoddy@aol.com <fdoddy@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: So what white?
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 11:26 AM

 
He repainted the avocado tron.  It's now Harvest Gold.


fd


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Blechta <rick@rickblechta. com>
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 1:11 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: So what white?

 

On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Bruce Daily wrote:

 This discussion thread gets me to wondering:  Why did Streetly finish the original 400s in white in the first place?  Was it simply to make them stand out from the other instruments on a stage?  Any thoughts, Martin?

The guy who used to paint them had once worked in a refrigerator factory. It was either white or avocado as far as he was concerned. Streetly wisely insisted on white. They did test one 400 in avocado. I believe Frankie Stickle has it in his kitchen.