Mellotronists

My buddy that gigs with a B3 uses furniture dolleys to load
the beast into his minivan via a ramp.  He can manage loading
and unloading on his own - assuming there are no stairs
involved (which is usually not the case, when you get to the
stage)

The dolleys stay on the organ - except when he lends 'em to
me, to move my B...

-jh

--- Andy Thompson <andy.thompson@...> wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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.
> 
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