The Mellotron Group

Mark,
    Yes, absolutely, keyboards are addictive.  Many of
us are not players, or "noodlers".  I recommend
getting it out of your system quickly.  It's becoming
a more costly drug by the day...
-Jack


--- Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks Thomas, I am not sure about buying the book,
> having already over spent this years mellotron
> budget. I can sympathize with you over the
> chamberlin, in my dreams I have a Rivera ( Riviera )
> which works perfectly, nobody has ever offered to
> sell me one! 
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> I am beginning to wonder if keyboards are addictive,
> I've gone from a just Yahmaha PSR 295 to an M400 and
> a piano and I'm looking\ufffd for a Korg xd5 or an X50.
> And I can barely play!
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> Mark
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> --- On Thu, 7/31/08, Thomas C. Doncourt
> <tomdcour@amnh.org> wrote:
> From: Thomas C. Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] new mellotron book
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 2:19 PM
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>             To be fair , i expected it to be one
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> chamberlins, maybe some of the the manufacturing
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> celebrities that used them. I hoped for more
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> the recordings. I realize now that what I was hoping
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> hardcover version of Frank Sammagio's book. The
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> I wish there was a Chamberlin book even a small one-
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> band "Rat Race Choir" who had an M2 and gave me the
> ph# et all but I never
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> American side some of which are of personal import,
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> > --- On Thu, 7/31/08, tomdcour <tomdcour@amnh. org>
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> > Subject: [newmellotrongroup] new mellotron book
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> > Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 7:02 AM
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