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From: jaybe52000

To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 11:23 PM

Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mark V owners

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Wow! I can't believe I'd never heard of the eboardmuseum! !

And I thought I had a ton of synths and keyboards... heh

The pic of the Mark V at the eboardmuseum is black. I wonder if they or Froese "repainted"
or "re-Tolexed" back to it's original color. I remember seeing it in a Tangerine Dream
video and/or pics and it was painted white at one point in time if I recall.

My Mark V is a "Mellotron" Mark V. Complete with a Mellotronics metal model and serial
number plate on the back.
Ironically, it's got the knobs that were later found on M400's by (gasp) Sound Sales, the
grey metal knobs with the gold/yellowish centers.
Thankfully that's the only thing about it that has been messed with by Sound Sales..... ;-)

Does anyone know if these later knobs found on the M400's with the black plastic control
panel overlay/sticker and yellow "M" logo were shipped that way from England because the
original black plastic and silver knobs were out of stock/unavailable etc., or was this
something that Sound Sales did for some reason to make the US Mellotrons look
"different" than the UK models. I've always assumed Sound Sales did the knob change and
the control panel graphics.

The only other equipment I've seen with these knobs (other than M400's) are API mixing
consoles and their current rack mount products which use a really small version of these
metal knobs.

The huge road case for my Mark V has two of the very large yellow "M" logo stickers on it
so I'm guessing that my Mark V passed thru their scary hands at some point.

John

--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, "mellotronist" <mellotronist@ ...> wrote:
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> The Froese Mk V is at www.eboardmuseum. com as well.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ceccles_ca" <ecclesreinson@ ...>
> To: <newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 12:43 PM
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mark V owners
>
>
> > --- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, "jaybe52000"
> > <jaybe52000@ > wrote:
> >>
> >> I realized I'd never asked on the old list or this one how many
> > members own a Mark V like
> >> myself?
> >>
> >> I know Professor Korb brought Pat Moraz' modified Mark V "Novatron"
> > back to life, and I've
> >> seen pics of the studio in Japan that has a Mark V with a Birotron
> > sitting on top.
> >>
> >> I know from our friend Ken Leonard that Pierre Veilleux also owned a
> > Mark V at one point in
> >> time but he no longer has it if I recall correctly.
> >>
> >> John
> >
> > Allen Duffy owns a MK V. It is a Novatron. (He says that it was
> > Oscar Peterson's). Jon Salley has the Pat Moraz Novatron MK V. Mark
> > Glinsky had Pinder's Novatron MK V and sold it to a collector in Italy.
> >
> > There were about 31 MK V's built. 28(?) were Mellotrons and 3 of them
> > were Novatrons. Looks like all 3 Novatron MK V's are accounted for.
> >
> > sources:
> > http://www.echoes- music.co. uk/Mellotron/ source/mel_ labs_history. html
> >
> > http://www.soundons ound.com/ sos/Aug02/ articles/ mellotron. asp
> >
> > Clay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
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