<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 17, 2020, at 8:14 PM, John Speth via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Checkout this Mellotron teardown by a competent tech:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByD8gH7kYxs" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByD8gH7kYxs</a><br class=""><br class="">It's such a crude and simple instrument. I'm surprised how the tapes are designed in. No quick change there!<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>(Certainly more advanced that a tripod, eh?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As teardown videos go, it's pretty good, but she neglected to describe the "tape frame". The 35 tapes and pulleys and springs are on a rack unit that is held in place with 4 thumb-bolts. You can unscrew them, and the assembly lifts right out. And there's a case for it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So you can bring a spare tape frame to a gig, and swap out the sounds during a break. (Or as part of the act!)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> -- Don<br class="">--<br class="">Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California<br class=""><a href="http://www.till.com" class="">http://www.till.com</a></div>
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