New Mellotron Book !!
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Topic: New Mellotron Book !!
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Subject: New Mellotron Book !!
Date Posted: August 21 2008 at 06:05
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Hello fellow progheads.
I just received this exciting information:
I hope to you more about this book very soon, now I am going to order it!
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: August 21 2008 at 16:52
592 pages about Mellotrons? Yikes.... 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 21 2008 at 16:57
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That's 408 pages too short, fellow Dutchman |
Posted By: pierreolivier
Date Posted: August 21 2008 at 20:34
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Hi Erik,
I hope to get it soon. My parents will go to London,England next month and I commissionned them to bring me back the book. I hope that it will be available in library and not just by the internet order. Maybe you have informations about that, Erik.
On the other hand, I read on the Mellotron discussion board that a lot of Mellotron enthousiasts that already purchased the book were very disapointed by this book. The book subject is mainly about the relation of the instrument with the rock scene, something that Mellotron fans already know. I don't think that we will be learning something new with this book until you are a beginner with the subject. I read on the board that all engineering and functionning of the instrument is totally absent in this book. I will purchased it because books about trons are quite rare and want to make my own mind. The first book that came out some years ago, "The Mellotron book" by Frank Samagaio is maybe less glamour but, at least, he treated about the technical side of the instrument and the informations there are truly essential for every fans of this instrument.
I will give my opinion when I will get my hand on it. Until then, I cannot judge it but a book with more than 500 pages with more than 300 photos surely need to be checked.
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 11:04
Hello Pierreolivier, I knew you would find this thread  I have no problems with the fact the book mainly tells about the relationship between the Mellotron and the rock scene, I think the authors did it on purpose because the average Tronmaniac already owns books with the technical information about the Mellotron ... and they have read my Mellotron special 
I am looking forward to your review, thanks for posting.
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Posted By: pierreolivier
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 15:57
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Hi Erik,
I hope that this book will not be only about the rock scene. What that will be interesting is having stories from the Streetly manufacture, at the time (60's and 70's). Ex: what happens when princess Margaret place an order for a mellotron, or Peter Sellers. That kind of informations is not well known, even by fans and will be interesting.
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 16:09
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Indeed Pierreolivier, very interesting information, never heard of, call The Sun about
princess Margaret and the Mellotron and you will be on the front page
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Posted By: pierreolivier
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 16:37
It's something that fans know( see PlanetMellotron article "Oddball owners") and Peter Sellers too. On the biography of his, there's a chapter dedicated to the Mellotron Organ.
 In fact, Princess Margaret was a friend of Peter Sellers, who already had the instrument. Princess Margaret like the sound and ordered one, a rare black and gold Mark II (the same model as Pink Floyd) but never pay it, citing royal family privileges, but Streetly recovered the mellotron later for non-payement. I saw a photo of it when it reside in Buckingham Palace, below a very 60's glass mirror, very odd.
Another one who owned a machine was L. Ron Hubbard, the Scientology guru. He was an amateur musician and own a rosewood Mark II. Apparently, that mellotron is near pristine condition and was never moved since he got delivery of it. That mellotron is still in possession of the Scientology movement and still in his office of Scientology headquater in UK.
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erik neuteboom wrote:Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 16:40
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I wish the Scientology Church became silent after 7-8 seconds
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Posted By: pierreolivier
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 17:10
Totally agreed with you Erik,
After seeing that famous South Park episode, you can't take them serously.
But on this page, there's a pic of L.Ron at the tron, as well as what is known about the princess Margaret story:
http://www.planetmellotron.com/oddballs.htm - http://www.planetmellotron.com/oddballs.htm
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 17:52
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Your post is the great thing about this site: Tron-maniacs like you and me find each other and exchange their stories, thanks and we will meet again some day |
Posted By: pierreolivier
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 19:25
I hope too, Erik!
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