Mellotronists

John, 

The well known Kean/Birotron story goes like this:

Dave Kean bought his #7 Birotron from Mike Ayoub, the
same guy that sold Chris his Wakeman double tron. That
was in the early 90's. Then, while Kean was buying the
Mellotron stuff from Les Bradley, Les found a birotron
#8 (oddly enough) in storage with the Mellotron tapes.
Kean had been in contact with David Biro before that
time and Biro had NOT even seen one of his instruments
in decades. Kean got the idea to give Biro the second
unit, Les agreed and that's what they did. Dave and
his wife Sandi were on a pick up and delivery trip to
Naples Florida, visiting Jim Herbst and they dropped
off the Birotron to Biro in Jacksonville...got a look
at the Wakeman/Birotron scrap books and had a long
visit. 

I've heard and read this story a dozen times over the
years, Maybe time has altered the memories for you a
bit?

At any rate. Kean has seen 4 Birotrons (19 tapes, not
30) and said they all sounded pretty rotten, but the
vernier pitch control was sort of fun.

Mark.


 
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