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Thank you Frank !

Thank you Frank !

2009-04-14 by will davis

Thanks Frank !! No one in the history of the word has ever complained about the action of the Birotron keyboard....until now !!! And he still has not explained himself. The 8-tracks were noisy, and the fidelity was questionable....but those are subjective things......but the keyboard action ??? He has never laid a finger on a Birotron !!! dave
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Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Birotron on ebay

Mike, you're avoiding the questions. When and where did you play one, and who did it belong to. Your first email was pointed and filled with opinions. Fair enough. But in his rebuttal, Dave asked fair questions. Your retort was silly. Support the reasons for your opinion. I think that's reasonable. There isn't one credible word in the statement below.
Frank
In a message dated 4/13/2009 8:47:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mike.dickson@ gmail.com writes:
Dave -

You're quite right. It was all a figment of my imagination. Playing a
Birotron was the highlight of my entire life and was an experience so
intense I'd happily give up food and oxygen for a week just to re-live.
Indeed, I'd happily crawl for 100 miles over broken glass just to wank
over the shadow of a Birotron, dreaming of its lightning fast Pratt and
Reade keyboard action. I will further add that all the clattering from
the arse end of the Birotron doesn't happen and that in fact the
mechanism is so silent it stilled the myriad chattering voices in my
head that made me think I was playing the thing when it's obvious that I
was not.

Thanks for clearing all this up.

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Thank you Frank !

2009-04-14 by lsf5275@aol.com

Dave,
As I said earlier, I'm not trying to create, nor support ill will. Rick has a point. Perhaps you might have chosen a better way of challenging Mike's claims. As I reconsider, perhaps the one Birotron Mike may have played was an extra big piece of shit. Maybe someone had wadded bubble gum between the keys. Regardless, I would like to know why Mike feels the way he does as well as you, however, I can think of a dozen better ways to phrase the questions.
To say that "no one in the history of the world has complained about the action of a Birotron keyboard.... until now" is a pretty lame claim, don't you agree? And at the time of your post below, it would be nearly 4 AM where Mike lives. I expect we'll see his response soon enough.
Frank
By the way, why were you so offended by what Mike wrote? Obviously, your experiences with the machine differ from his. Is your last name Biro, per chance?
In a message dated 4/13/2009 10:44:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, trondave@gmail.com writes:
Thanks Frank !! No one in the history of the word has ever complained about the action of the Birotron keyboard.... until now !!! And he still has not explained himself. The 8-tracks were noisy, and the fidelity was questionable. ...but those are subjective things...... but the keyboard action ??? He has never laid a finger on a Birotron !!! dave

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Thank you Frank !

2009-04-14 by will davis

And what would have been a better way to phrase the question??
I havent done it yet, but Google Birotron keyboard action....and Ill guarantee that no one who has ever played one hands on has ever complained about it !! And Im assuming that no one has stuck 36 pieces of gum in between the 37 keys !! dave
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Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Thank you Frank !

Dave,
As I said earlier, I'm not trying to create, nor support ill will. Rick has a point. Perhaps you might have chosen a better way of challenging Mike's claims. As I reconsider, perhaps the one Birotron Mike may have played was an extra big piece of shit. Maybe someone had wadded bubble gum between the keys. Regardless, I would like to know why Mike feels the way he does as well as you, however, I can think of a dozen better ways to phrase the questions.
To say that "no one in the history of the world has complained about the action of a Birotron keyboard.... until now" is a pretty lame claim, don't you agree? And at the time of your post below, it would be nearly 4 AM where Mike lives. I expect we'll see his response soon enough.
Frank
By the way, why were you so offended by what Mike wrote? Obviously, your experiences with the machine differ from his. Is your last name Biro, per chance?
In a message dated 4/13/2009 10:44:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, trondave@gmail. com writes:
Thanks Frank !! No one in the history of the word has ever complained about the action of the Birotron keyboard.... until now !!! And he still has not explained himself. The 8-tracks were noisy, and the fidelity was questionable. ...but those are subjective things...... but the keyboard action ??? He has never laid a finger on a Birotron !!! dave

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Thank you Frank !

2009-04-14 by lsf5275@aol.com

I did it; I googled the keyboard action of Birotrons and I found just as many complaints about the keyboard action as I did compliments... zero. Either the jury's still out on that question, or more likely... no one gives a shit. If the machine was any good, it would have survived. I think that says it all. Mellotrons survived.
So let's just leave this subject subjective. It's like arguing if farts smell good or not, or if the transmission in a Chevy Vega shifts smoothly.
I, for one don't give a rat's ass about the Birotron. I don't want one. I'm merely interested in how Mike came to form his opinion. Birotrons were a small wart on the giant, elephantine ass of progressive music. (how do you like that one, Rick?)
Oh wait.... I just remembered... there might still exist about a hundred 8 track tape cassettes that aren't buried in landfills around the world. Let's build another Birotron. Then there will have been what... eleven built, or something like that?
Get a laugh.
Frank
In a message dated 4/14/2009 1:53:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, trondave@gmail.com writes:
I havent done it yet, but Google Birotron keyboard action....and Ill guarantee that no one who has ever played one hands on has ever complained about it !!

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