On Sun, 9 May 2004, Brady Arnold wrote:
> Dear friends... I have been working on a project for quite some time
> to produce a vitrual Mellotron that you can plug into your PC. This
> keyboard contains all 8 seconds of all 35 notes of all the famous
> sounds like: 3 violins (sampled from an mkII, all 35 keys), choir
> (m400 / 35), brass (mkII / 35), flute (m400 / 35), clarinet (mkII /
> 35), and many more combinations of patches that have been used on
> famous recordings such as a "watcher mix" that has been made from an
> mkII witch was the model that banks played that particular tune
> from. The keyboard will have 37 keys starting at f and ending at f,
> and will be built into a durable light wieght m400 style cabinet
> (white, or stone texture)... The size of the whole thing will be
> slightly smaller than a real m400 so that it can actually be
> shipped... I will leave a link when I make the first models
> available... I am looking to price these units somewhere around
> $350.00 (US) (plus or minus) STAY TUNED! -Brady Chamberlin
me thinks you will have problems using the name "mellotron" on them.
trademarks... patents... all that legal stuff [though IANAL...]
better to rename it now than rename it later. [a "chambertron"?]
...jeff