Hi Steve, and welcome to the group. It just so happens that there's
a company in your country that is the originator of the Mellotron
and still builds them for a very reasonable price. That company is
Streetly Electronics. They also sell refurbished Trons that are like
new.
http://www.mellotronics.com/P.S. The reply default for this group is the poster's email address,
so you have to set it for the group before submitting.
Regards,
Bernie
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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "stevetebble" <steve@s...>
wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I've just joined this group so I'd like to say hello to you all
and a
> belated Merry Christmas. I've become a confirmed eBay addict, so
far
> I've bought loads of CD's, guitar parts, and models of Concorde
but
> sometimes I type in 'mellotron' just to see what comes up. I saw
the
> one in Austria a couple of weeks back, and actually bid. I knew
I'd
> never be able to afford it, I just bid so that I'd be able to say
I'd
> done it - and the screenshot with 'you are the highest bidder'
does
> look very nice framed and on the wall!
> I stopped at 1477 (about £900), but had I realised the end price
was
> going to be equivalent to about £1500, plus only 100 euros to ship
it
> here (that's Bristol, England) might have been tempted to go
> further. Of course, we have no way of knowing how high the
eventual
> winner was willing to go - is he anyone known to you guys?
> I don't currently have a 'Tron but will soon be looking, all these
> samples, and synths that try to sound like one are all very well,
but
> after a while you start thinking, what about the real thing!
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Tebble.
>