I highly doubt the appearance of any Tron or Chamby on Welk's show for several reasons.
Lawrence Welk's orchestra are indeed the players on the tapes. Welk also offered to fund the manufacture of the instrument if his name was used to promote and sell the machine.
So instead of Chamberlin, it would have been a "Welk" machine.
That might have happened except that Harry was very determined to keep the machine in his own business domain and told Welk to buzz off. Harry never cared for 'celebrity pandering'. The other reason he told Welk that was because he didn't like Welk's flirting with his wife everytime he came over to the house.
So I'm sure what was seen on the show was a Harmonium which can also sound like an accordian.
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Bruce Daily
<pocotron@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Tom- I think that Jimmy Moore once noted that he saw what he thought was a tron (maybe a Chamby?) on Welk's show. Jimmy? -Bruce D.
From: Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Chamberlin spotting?
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 6:52 AM I don't know , but I do know that Harry Chamberlin used the Lawrence Welk orchestra. On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:46 AM, johnm400s911 wrote: On Saturday July 24th at 7:00 PM our local PBS station ran an old Lawrence Welk show. Just as my Dad did in the 70's, I tormented my kids by making them watch a few minutes. This particular show, episode 1247, in the first few minutes had what I think was a Chamberlin being played. The sound was an accordian and what makes me think it might have been a Chamberlin vs. a spinet Baldwin or Kimbell organ was the absense of stops, padal buttons, etc. The keyboard was a single manual, did not have 88 keys and was very plain/simple in appearance. I've googled Chamberlin images and can't find what I saw. Anyone know if the Welk Orchestra used a Chamberlin?
John
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