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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Anybody seen this one?

From: gino wong <wonggster@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-01-25

She is working on a Micro Leslie.

Also for me: She is doing routine service on my Synthi AKS

I want a Dual Oddy Avatar setup with a pair of Arp 1601 clones, the whole thing fully syncable and quanrtizable.

She is Modding one of my two Arp Avatars. I got one fixed up pretty well and I got another and asked her to match and supercede the reference unit. Taking a badly broken Avatar, adding patch points, speeding up the EG and VCA,  fixing the glide fault, Adding an oscillator, putting in a dual filter toggle one side standard ladder ala Arp and the other is a hand etched Yusynth Diode filter with the caveat that I am a little freaky about the EFM VCF 8 (it was the best of Tom's circuit cores.). A voltage processor will be added too.

I think that you guys will get why I am going on and on about this child and her guy. They are extraordinary.  

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Berington Van Campen vcmusicorp1@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Hi Frank, Gino, et al,

Yes, it's too bad she had such restrictions placed on her that she wasn't even "permitted" to solicit outside expert opinions or do anything beyond replacing caps or whatever. It's almost a surprise they'd allow her to find new replacement components, as opposed to "vintage" resistors & caps from some out-of-the-way electronics house that still has old stock. Too bad they "clipped the wings" of someone apparently so qualified and promising.

For an actual "restoration," I think I'd have begun with emptying the cabinet completely and taking a fire hose to it! Apparently the current owner wants it to look "aged," or even older than it actually is. They probably also love the all-too-common "relic'd" guitars, 2017-ish instruments finished by their manufacturers to look like their '50s or '60s originals. For the most part, to me they too often look more like the poor things had a fight with a lawnmower... and lost! Never got that whole thing. I appreciate "well-loved," but from natural wear by someone who's at least taken care of their instrument. Aside from Alison's internal work, this poor Mellotron looks like a flood victim!

Anyway, yes, too bad this conscientious tech had so many limitations. It would've been exciting to see what she'd done had she been allowed.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone!

Cheers!




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