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City & Village Tours: 0845 812 5000 info@cityandvillagetours.com
It took years to wean them onto fax machines.
Now we have to keep a fax machine for those
who’ve yet to take the plunge with e-mail!
Also still in Mr. Hubbard’s office is a quite wonderful
machine called a Mellotron, an
(try saying that
after your sherry before lunch!) originally developed
and built in
in the early 1960s. It has
two side-by-side keyboards: the right keyboard has
18 "lead instrument" sounds such as
and
the left keyboard plays pre-recorded
musical rhythm tracks in various styles.
The music sessions for Mellotrons were recorded
in London and were partly funded by the magician
Mellotrons were very expensive,
costing from £1,000 (approximately £14,000 today)
in the mid-1960s. Other early Mellotron owners
included
nd
of
Throughout the 1970s, the Mellotron had a major
impact on
being used as a trademark
sound by progressive bands. You can hear it on the
Moody Blues
Nights in White Satin
and Elton Johns
album
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
After John
Lennon, Paul McCartney and their manager Brian
Epstein bought Mellotrons The Beatles used it in
on several albums including
Sergeant Pepper
and
The White Album
. So then of course everyone
wanted one - from David Bowie and Manfred Mann
to Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. During the
manor tour after your Christmas lunch you’ll enjoy
a demonstration of this marvellous instrument.
Historic Saint Hill Manor is cared for and kept open
for the public on a campus that is still a centre for
Scientology with students from many countries
attending advanced graduate courses in the college
built on the estate and known as Saint Hill Castle.
But your group will have the Manor to themselves
and your visit will be all about the history of the
manor house and enjoying Christmas lunch as a
group served in the beautiful ballroom decorated with
a mural by a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill.
And if that’s not enough to make the peas roll off
your knife I don’t know what is.
Booking is now open for To The Manor Born,
a
Christmas Lunch Special.
The cost is £26.50 per person for the day
and includes a Blue Badge guided tour of
East Grinstead and the Ashdown Forest,
a small glass of sherry, Christmas lunch with
all the trimmings, Manor house tour and tea
or coffee with mince pies.
The day starts at 10-30am and finishes at
4-45pm. You book your own coach locally
and we do the rest.
Available weekdays only from
15 November to 10 December 2012.
To reserve a date for your group
please call us on 0845 812 5000.
Alternative geographic number 0208 692 1133