The Mellotron Group

Back in the days before Hip Hop and big beats, Harry Chamberlin was way  
ahead of the times. Latinos would mount the 20 in their cars, charge up the  
compressed air storage tanks, crank up the volume on the Chamberlin (which 
was  connected to a big mono speaker in the car trunk and cruise in their low 
riders  through the streets of LA
 
 
In a message dated 2/2/2011 3:16:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
vance@juniperpacific.com writes:

 
 
 
The best part is that the audio comes out over that nifty oval dash-top  
speaker in your '63 Rambler that's been baked through the windshield over at  
least eight hot California summers....now that's Hi-Fi!!

On 2/2/2011  11:53 AM, Rick Blechta wrote:  
 


On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Charles wrote:


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never  saw this model before


That's because this is the near-mythical "dashboard model" . It also  
contains a radar detector. 


If the cops pulled you over for using it since radar detectors are  illegal 
in most municipalities, you just switched the rhythm portion on and  waited 
for the officer with those wonderful beats playing. Worked like a  charm 
every time, I hear. 


At gigs, the radar detector could tell if the guitarist was playing too  
many notes, in which case an alarm went off and delivered 50 amps of pure  
power right to the unfortunate guitarist, sending him flying right off the  
stage. As negative reinforcement, it was quite effective. After a few jolts,  
the average reduction in excess guitar notes was well over 50%.


Can't understand why they didn't sell more of 'em...