The Mellotron Group

Has anyone ever seen an Ondes Martenot for sale? How much will it be? It has an amazing sound and fascinated me ever... think I have bought all available records and CDs with music for Ondes :-)) But no chance to get an instrument. I guess it will be even more expensive than most Mellotrons, what do you think?

Greetings, Thomas

If....you can find one....I would imagine it would just about priceless.

fd

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From: thomasooo2003 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 5:55 pm
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Ondes Martenot


  
                  
Has anyone ever seen an Ondes Martenot for sale? How much will it be? It has an amazing sound and fascinated me ever... think I have bought all available records and CDs with music for Ondes :-)) But no chance to get an instrument. I guess it will be even more expensive than most Mellotrons, what do you think?

Greetings, Thomas

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, fdoddy@... wrote:

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>  If....you can find one....I would imagine it would just about priceless.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FREE?

> You have to apply to the family of the inventor and, if accepted, they
will build you one.

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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, fdoddy@... wrote:
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>>  If....you can find one....I would imagine it would just about
>> priceless.
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On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:55 PM, thomasooo2003 wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen an Ondes Martenot for sale? How much will it be? It has an amazing sound and fascinated me ever... think I have bought all available records and CDs with music for Ondes :-)) But no chance to get an instrument. I guess it will be even more expensive than most Mellotrons, what do you think?
> 
> Greetings, Thomas
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> 
Thomas,

The last time I heard of one for sale, it was in rough shape and the buyer was asking $18,000. I don't know if that's a realistic price or not, but since they aren't made anymore, I'm sure you're going to pay a lot -- except in France, which apparently is absolutely crawling with the things. ;)

I'd love to have one.

Rick

I think I know of someone who either has or recently had  one for sale. Or maybe it was an Ondioline.

Bernie


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, thomasooo2003 <no_reply@...> wrote:

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> Has anyone ever seen an Ondes Martenot for sale? How much will it be? It has an amazing sound and fascinated me ever... think I have bought all available records and CDs with music for Ondes :-)) But no chance to get an instrument. I guess it will be even more expensive than most Mellotrons, what do you think?
> 
> Greetings, Thomas
>

They're valuable? Shit. We had two of those things that looked just like 
the keyboard in Bruce's photo that we found in our attic when we moved 
in here eight years ago. One of them made this horrible screeching 
noise, so we gave it to the Goodwill store and the other didn't work at 
all - the power chord was missing - and we put that one curbside for the 
trash. I wish I had known. Oh, and there was a box of spare parts, too.



Rick Blechta wrote:

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> On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:55 PM, thomasooo2003 wrote:
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>> Has anyone ever seen an Ondes Martenot for sale? How much will it be? 
>> It has an amazing sound and fascinated me ever... think I have bought 
>> all available records and CDs with music for Ondes :-)) But no chance 
>> to get an instrument. I guess it will be even more expensive than 
>> most Mellotrons, what do you think?
>>
>> Greetings, Thomas
>>
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> Thomas,
>
> The last time I heard of one for sale, it was in rough shape and the 
> buyer was asking $18,000. I don't know if that's a realistic price or 
> not, but since they aren't made anymore, I'm sure you're going to pay 
> a lot -- except in France, which apparently is absolutely crawling 
> with the things. ;)
>
> I'd love to have one.
>
> Rick
>

So much for my chances...

Sorry for the brevity as I am replying from a remote region of  
iPhonekstan.

fritzdoddy

On Mar 18, 2010, at 7:16 PM, "Thomas C. Doncourt" <tomdcour@amnh.org>  
wrote:

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> > You have to apply to the family of the inventor and, if accepted,  
> they
> will build you one.
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> > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, fdoddy@... wrote:
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> >>
> >> If....you can find one....I would imagine it would just about
> >> priceless.
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For those that don't know, Fritz is on assignment and covering the war  
there. There's talk of waterboarding Abdulla Steven Jobah to get answers on why 
 the iPad can't run simultaneous apps. 
 
 
In a message dated 3/18/2010 9:11:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fdoddy@aol.com writes:

 
 
 
So much for my chances...

Sorry for the brevity as I am replying  from a remote region of 
iPhonekstan.  


fritzdoddy


On Mar 18, 2010, at 7:16 PM, "Thomas C. Doncourt" <_tomdcour@amnh.tom_ 
(mailto:tomdcour@amnh.org) >  wrote:





 


> You have to apply to the family of the inventor and, if  accepted, they
will build you one.
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> --- In _newmellotrongroup@newmellotronnew_ 
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>> If....you can find  one....I would imagine it would just about
>>  priceless.
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