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Hi Ken,
I don't know why this should happen only with multiple notes. I 
sometimes get a "bump" sound at the beginning of the odd note 
and that's crap on the tape. If I clean it just before the heads with 
IPA it goes away. Is your pad assembly tightened down properly? 
I'm wondering if it's moving when you engage a full chord.

On the magnetic fields thing - does anyone know if it's safe to put 
a pc moniter ontop of a tron. I don't want to wipe me tapes!
John
M300#005

To:             	mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
From:           	kenmerb@...
Date sent:      	Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:41:28 EST
Subject:        	Re: [Mellotronists] Various topics

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.


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