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kinchmusic@... wrote:

On the subject of Serial numbers. Isn't it about time that there was definitiveWeb based register of where all surviving trons can be registered?
Andy K
EMI m400 # E4/1405

Waking up from a long sleep.....
Speaking of serial numbers, Andy are you sure that your last digits a 5 andnot the letter S?  I'm pretty sure the format for the serial numbers of theEMI Trons is   E4/XXXS.  Most of the numbers I've seen looked like that.However someone here with an EMI Tron (I can't remember who) posts a serialnumber with a completely different format.  Anyone know when these tronswere made?  I got mine in 1973 from DMI in Mahwah just before they closed,as a trade for my M400 #295 which was a dog and never worked.  It was a floormodel that I bought from Rondo Music in Union, NJ in 1972 for $2500.  I thoughtI was getting a good deal.  I was 20 and had mellotron fever. What did Iknow?  (Actually, today it would be a good deal because we have this networkto handle these problems, back then no one could fix it and they weren'tsending it back to Streetly.)

That last time that I was at DMI, there was in a corner of the warehousea pile, about 8 feet high of junked Mellotrons.  I saw twisted bodys withfeet sticking out, mangled keyboards and aluminum frames. There were tapereturn boxes and bent up tape frames and all kinds of mellotron innards andat the top of the heap sat my #295!  I wonder exactly how many mellotronswere lost in that pile?

Dave Shapiro
EMI m400 # E4/169S.....been to Streetly