Mellotronists

In a message dated 11/19/2002 2:30:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
gene@... writes:


> Magnetic fields from other instruments?
> 
> In the process I find that there
> are certain instruments that when placed upon my creaky old Hammond cause a
> nasty hum to come out the Leslie. I have tracked this down to the location
> of the mains transformer in the offending instrument relative to the 
> drawbar
> matching transformer in the Hammond. 

When I first got my MKII, Ken L and I were taking her through the paces, 
while I had Martin Smith on the phone, giving me instructions.  Any time I 
came close to the MKII, there was a loud, annoying hum that came out of the 
speakers.  Ken L could go near it and no hum.  Talk about rejection - it was 
almost as if #247 was allergic to Merbler (or maybe my magnetic personality 
was having an effect).  We soon discovered that the cordless phone I was 
holding was causing the hum whenever I came near.   

Currently I am having another preplexing problem which is proving much harder 
to solve.  Seems that #247 is now making a loud "popping" sound whenever I 
play multiple notes, bank #1 only, RH side only.  It's almost as if it's 
rejecting my choice of sounds on that bank ;-).  This is causing despair on 
both sides of the Atlantic at the moment.  Brilliant solutions are welcome.


Ken M.