Mellotronists

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Bruce Daily wrote:

> Greetings from Loveland, Colorado-
>
> 	I'm Bruce Daily, an unemployed electronics tech, a
> new tron owner, and an old certified tronhead.  No,
> the "pocotron" screen name is not that of my tron.
> Frustrated by rejections from Yahoo in coming up with
> a screen name, I could only think of my parakeet's
> name.
> 	Yeah, I bought the M400 #1221 out of Bloomington,
> Ind.  As I had no eBay account, my sister helped do
> the bidding.  Believe me, we don't know anything about
> the current scam.  I am DEFINITELY keeping this tron.
> I have been wanting a mellotron ever since I first
> played one in 1975.  After I played a few notes on
> that one, my buddy said that my eyes glazed over -a
> sure sign of tron-itis.


congrats and welcome!
you HAVE come to the right place.

oh, and as it runs out, i restored m400 #1220 a couple years back.
so your tron's sibling resides in maryland now, and is quite happy,
even though it was in pretty miserable shape for a while.

...jeff
owner of m400 #364
restorer of m400 #1220
caretaker of m400 #1189