Mellotronists

Tony Moffett wrote:
> How about the Freeman string symphonizer? Anyone remember, own or use 
> one? I fixed a few and for it's time (already had my Mellotron too), the 
> sound was interesting. IMHO it far out did the ARP string ensemble, but 
> was substantially larger like something else we cherish.
>  
> Tony
> #510

Way back when, in the *good old days* when you could actually hear prog on 
California FM radio in the middle of the afternoon, I was in a band that 
pooled it's $$$ to buy a Micro-moog, a Rhodes 73 and an ARP Omni.  Of 
course we were always looking to upgrade equipment any way we could -- my 
first bass was  a 67 Gibson EBO for $20 + some Thai Stick...and I got to 
smoke the Thai Stick, so I made out like a bandit.  My first guitar was a 
63 Mosrite with spectacular sunburst finish.  I traded 75 LPs for it, 
keeping my fingers crossed that its owner didn't want my Crimson, Yes, 
Genesis, PFM, Banco, etc..... he didn't, so I dodged a bullet there :-)

I look back and realize we were pretty damn lucky to have acquired those 
keyboards.  We got them second hand -- real cheap -- through ads in "The 
Reader" IIRC, and they were all in good working order.  I wish I had them 
now!  Of course, now I have Greg Amov with a Roland XP-30 + a zillion 
plugins, Mike Dickson with an M400 + monster frames, and more horspower 
than God on my desktop music workstation, so it's still *all good*, just 
in a different way :-)
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Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid Alan Parsons
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