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Brady Arnold wrote:

   Greetings fellow Mellotronists: I hadread at Mellotron.com that
there was a Mellotron Digital facility down in Clearwater, Florida.
I was wondering if anyone would know weather, or not it's still
there in that location? I am moving back to that area soon, not even
10 miles from there.  thanks for viewing!   -Brady

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Hello Brady and everyone,

Sorry to inform, but nothing remains of Mellotron Digital or even
analog for that matter. Dave Kean purchased the bulk of materials
in 1989 from FL along with misc.bits from the UK.

Jim McNeeley was assoc. with the 4-Track and also with M.D.
in FL. I've corresponded with him on occasion, but his answers
are guarded. ....'Nuff said.

Last year, some orig. Mellotron bits were sold on eBay which
apparently came from FL . I shudder in horror to think of a rare
MK-V parted-out in tiny pieces.Another fellow named Dan Kerstner
in Clearwater FL, wrote the following to me last Sept :

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Jerry, I was in the Rubin Industrial Park where Mellotron died.
I was brought in  by Les Rubin to sell   off theremaining stock that they had
   in order to pay their rent. (I  owned a videoproduction company in that park
in unit 803.)  Since I   was  an engineerthey asked me what this stuff
  was worth, I believe this was '93.

I was given a 4 track Mellotron I think it's serial # 3 or 4 formy   efforts.
 We threw away the MK-V frame, and used the parts tohelp the 4 track.

  What I saw at the end of Mellotron can only be describedas incredible.
It's a shame they ran out of    money.  Theyhad a piano that they were
  working on that was incredible.  It was based ona KX-88 keyboard and some
Yamaha DX-7 and    other stuff of the day. They literally took the    best of
Yamaha, Korg & Roland and had something that at that timewould have killed
every body.     But it was too late. I put price tags on it all     and junk collectors
and other electronics tech-heads  took the rest  away.

What a shame.  I sold the sample  tapes to a Mellotronusers group a long
  time ago.  (I think in  Washington.)  Anyway I still have the 4-track and 7 years
ago I had    it working.  It is the bestconversation piece
  in our studios.  (We are a Hi definition Video Studio.Electric Image.)

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That's all I have on Mellotron Digital, everyone.  Feel free toadd to this,
if any of you have more info .  Scrapping a MK-V  ??!
..........ARGHHH!     -- Jerry Korb