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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Happy Birthday #1565?

From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008-06-05

Thanks John,
I am assuming the serial numbers are in the order that the machines were manufactured, I wonder why mine has a CM10?

Mark

--- On Thu, 6/5/08, john barrick <astroboy@cinci.rr.com> wrote:
From: john barrick <astroboy@cinci.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Happy Birthday #1565?
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 4:09 PM

Hi Mark - I can't answer your question, but, #1407 is a 400SM and by the
time I purchased it, it had already been outfitted with an SMS4 motor
controller card. I have no clue as to what was originally there - I
assume an SMS2 or SMS3.
johnb

Mark Pring wrote:
>
> I am trying to work out when #1565 was built. On the old Steetly site
> it says 2000 M400 mellotrons were built from 1970-77. Models built
> after 73/4 were 400 SM and had the SMS2 motor control system.
>
> #1565 is a 400S and has a CM10.
>
> Was there ever a plain 400?
> Where does the S fit in?
>
> I would have thought that #1565 was towards the end of production run.
> Did they produce a lot fewer of the 400SM, say 3-400 and would that
> then make #1565 one of the last mellotrons with a CM 10 and a likely
> manufacture date of 1973?
>
> Anybody know?
>
> Mark
>
>