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From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 3:29 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] M4000D nice review with photos
"The analogue Mellotrons are actually very sensitive and a careless handling of the machine could occur several mechanical problems. Smoke, temperature and humidity also play a huge factor."
Why do they keep hashing this out? If you throw a Moog into a swimming pool you wreck it. Same for the M4000D. If you are an idiot with your gear then you get what you deserve. (Smoke has screwed up many things that are not mechanical, incidentally)
"The M4000D has a position sensitive keyboard, which means each key is in principle a volume control. This is to emulate the effect of the Mellotron and espesially the M-series Chamberlin where you could control the volume of the notes, depending on how hard you pressed the tape on the tape head."
Is this true? Does anyone actually have a 'touch sensitive Mellotron' here? I'd have thought for that to be the case the instrument would have to be very badly adjusted in the first place.
Mike
On 12/07/2011 14:49, Charles wrote: