The Mellotron Group

mr dickson, now you should use some sort of secretly coded insult to our list moderator or some other such thing to get yourself booted from the group - we can all relive the childish drama that killed the last list!

i kid of course.

you were specifically and deliberately called a liar without instigation, other than stating your opinion, one which many here know that, while snarky at times [in a good and humourous way IMHO], is at the very least well informed.


jeez.
i go away for a couple days and all hell breaks loose.

peace boys and girls.
please?

...jeff


--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Birotron on ebay
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 7:25 PM
> 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.
> 
> Mike
> 
> will davis wrote:
> >
> >
> > Mike....I have played a pipe organ and I have played a
> Birotron and I 
> > can safely say that you obviously never actually
> played a 
> > Birotron.....why are you lying about it ?   The key
> action was 
> > lightning fast; it was made by Pratt and Reade, the
> same company that 
> > made keyboards for Moog and many others.  If you did
> indeed play one 
> > and maybe you are just prejudiced for some reason, Id
> be curious to 
> > know exactly when, where and who owned it !  dave
> >  
> >
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     *From:* Mike Dickson
> <mailto:mike.dickson@gmail.com>
> >     *To:* newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> >     <mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> >     *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2009 5:42 AM
> >     *Subject:* Re: [newmellotrongroup] Birotron on
> ebay
> >
> >     Played it, hated it.
> >
> >     The keyboard is heavier than a direct action pipe
> organ, thanks to
> >     the
> >     keys being sprung with something that could have
> been used to
> >     catapult
> >     boulders over a castle wall 600 years ago. Worse
> than that is the
> >     noise
> >     from the mechanics of the machine. Dear god...all
> those little 8
> >     track
> >     cartridges clattering away constantly. I never
> thought much of the
> >     fidelity either, although that may have had
> something to do with the
> >     state of the recordings.
> >
> >     Even worse though is that it all works on tape
> loops, thereby losing
> >     that characteristic attack that actually signals
> what a sound
> >     is.Without
> >     it (say) a solo cello and a solo voice sound
> amazingly similar,
> >     although
> >     with the reproduction problems the Birotron had
> it's amazing it
> >     sounded
> >     like anything at all. It's better than the
> Orchestron (which seems to
> >     have a library of sine waves, clicks and white
> noise) but not by much.
> >
> >     tronbros@aol.com <mailto:tronbros%40aol.com>
> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > It's the one we restored about 7 years
> ago!
> >     >
> >     > M
> >     >
> >     > *Streetly Electronics - All Things
> Mellotronic
> >     > www.mellotronics.com
> <http://www.mellotronics.com/
> >     <http://www.mellotronics.com/>>*
> >     > US Sales East: Jimmy Moore JMoore6397@aol.com
> >     <mailto:JMoore6397%40aol.com>
> <http://JMoore6397@aol.com/
> >     <http://JMoore6397@aol.com/>>
> >     > US Sales West: Paul Cox pjc56@earthlink
> <mailto:pjc56@earthlink>
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >     -- 
> >     Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> >
> >     Free Music Project:
> http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
> >     <http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson>
> >     Or http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
> <http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/>
> >
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> 
> Free Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
> Or http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
> 
> 
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