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

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

I'm sorry, Sean.      (you should see my father's basement!)
 
Oh, and don't forget the tri-colored multi-level shag carpet, along with the moulded plastic fleur-de-lis cutout room dividers.
 
   -Bruce D.


--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Sean <fourtytwominds@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Sean <fourtytwominds@yahoo.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: So what white?
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:33 AM

 
That's my family living room you are talking about there. The fake paneling with black groves that is.

No amount of wood polish will make it look appealing.

MY ENTIRE living room mind you.

-Sean

--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, Bruce Daily <pocotron@.. .> wrote:
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>    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...
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>    #1221  (NO, NO, NO, please NOOO!!!)
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> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 11:26 AM
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> He repainted the avocado tron.  It's now Harvest Gold.
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> 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?
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> On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Bruce Daily wrote:
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>  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?
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> 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.
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