Nice! Thanks Mattias.
I also saw something that stated that Eddie Jobson played a Mark V with Roxy Music that
also had some sound effects in it... Footsteps and car starting at the beginning of "Love is
the Drug" and the string part from "Really Good Time" which apparently was spread over
several keys played one after the other to get the string parts for that song. I think that's
still available the library.
This same article stated that Paul McCartney had/has s/n 109 (I remember seeing that one
in some Wings videos with Linda sitting at it with a Minimoog and ARP Pro Soloist on top)
and that Rick Wakeman and Tony Banks both had Mark V's as well.
I know about Rick's home made "Mark V" that Chris now has and I didn't know that Tony
Banks or Genesis ever had a Mark V, anyone know if that's true?
John
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Mattias" <Mattias.olsson5@...> wrote:
>
> Pär lindh has got Anekdotens old Mark V and producer Johan Ekelund has got one as
well...
>
> Count two points for Sweden.
>
> Mattias Olsson
> Roth Händle Studios, Stockholm
> www.roth-handle.nu
> http://www.myspace.com/57224022
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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:
> >
> > 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.soundonsound.com/sos/Aug02/articles/mellotron.asp
> > >
> > > Clay
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>