Mellotronists

Jonesy,
Nice story-wish I still had my first-Wurlitzer E.Piano w/speaker box 
that had 4-8"speakers-beige in color-circa '65.
Pete

jonesalley wrote:
> I managed to pick up an interesting keyboard a while back. It's an Ace 
> Tone Top 5 combo organ with one four-octave manual, it's garish red 
> and white with screw-on stainless steel legs, it only makes five 
> sounds and generally speaking is the kind of instrument that I can't 
> stand. I paid way more than it's worth, but I would have gladly paid 
> even more than I did to own it.
>
> It's where I began turning into me. It's the very first instrument I 
> ever played on stage in a rock band, back in the winter of 1969. Not 
> one like it, but the exact same one. It was owned by the guy who 
> played bass and ran the band, and I borrowed it on and off for four or 
> five years in the 70's until I finally started getting some real 
> keyboards of my own. 
>
> Even with the collection I have amassed in the meantime, I have 
> wondered about this humble little instrument all these decades and a 
> few months ago I decided to see if I could track it down. I succeeded 
> and it's home with me now for good. Amazingly, it seems to have been 
> in a time capsule and it looks like nobody has even played it since 
> the last time I did, it just sat in closets all these years. The 
> little black scuff mark that I accidentally made on the cover looks 
> like it just happened yesterday.
>
> And now it's mine. Forever. I almost cried when I opened the box and 
> saw it for the first time in thirty years. I still can't look at it 
> without getting a lump in my throat, and I've had it here for a couple 
> of weeks now.
>
> I feel like I just married my high school sweetheart. And she is 
> exactly the same as she was the last time I saw her.
>