Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

Yes, the condition one would find a mellotron in today would be tangental on how much it was 'toured". If you put it in a road case it couldn't fit into a car/station wagon. With just the muff cover I moved mine in a volkswagon rabbit and a datsun B210!  By the 80's my muff cover looked like it was run over by a lawnmower. Despite the loving care I gave to my prize possession it was discovered when brought in for refurbishing that the frame was bent. Still, with a proper truck, a road case, a spare M4000 sitting at home and a helpful guitarist to load the "tour" tron from the stage to the case it would be the preferable way to go. I use the "Pinder" samples, a Nord and a real tron on my work tapes and I can hear and feel the difference- the real tron is considerably better.

On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Bruce Daily wrote:

 

Okay, here's another one-     9.  Weight     -which directly transfers to one of its greatest downfalls, NO RESPECT FROM ROADIES OR OTHER TRANSPORTERS.  It only takes one bad trip...        -Bruce D.     --- On Wed, 12/1/10, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote: From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Speaking of the M4000, what's with this? To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 7:20 AM   On 01/12/2010 13:20, tron400 wrote:   If Mellotrons have limitations, everything has limitations. No one ever mentions the limitations of a guitar or a piano, yet the article mentions Mellotron limitations without saying what they are. What are they? Tuning Range Voices Recording quality Timbre White noise Tape audio artefacts Tape transport Playing position Give me a shout if you want more.