Mellotronists

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From: <tron@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Keyboard Players


>
> > Lucky you! They are very fine instruments and ultra reliable. I've
> > often wondered why C3s are seen far more often then their B cousins in
> > Europe. You see very few Cs on this side of the Atlantic.
>
> To be fair, you don't see that many Hammonds over here in the first
> place. A C3 in decent nick over here sells for between 3000 and 4000
> pounds, believe it or not.

I'm on a promise of 2500 UKP for this one. Now, advice, please! This C3 is
unsplit. To split it would be a crime against, well, everything really. I
wish to be able to move the bastard about, even if only occasionally. My
options:

1) Devise a way of shifting the unsplit organ on some sort of trolley
affair, including a ramp to get it in and out of a van.
2) Damn the torpedoes and have it split anyway.
3) Do a deal with one of the Hammond restoration companies, whereby they get
a pristine, unsplit case, and they put the innards of mine into a split one
they may have lying around.

Bearing in mind that I live on my own, and I couldn't move a split one on my
own anyway. I've only just worked out a way to shift #1145 and my new
Rhodes.

Andy T.