Mellotronists

According to the resources manager at the Beeb they had 6 Mkiis, 
A mahog one (presumably the original SFX prototype) and the rest 
in grey. They were all sold off painfully cheaply in the early 80's 
sob..sob!! I don't know how many of the grey-painted SFX  M400s 
the Beeb had if any at all. I spoke to one guy who clearly 
remembered "touching up" some Wimbledon recordings with a SFX 
console ready for broadcast!

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> now- cast yer minds back: a bbc show in the 70s called "swapshop"; I saw a 
> tiny bit of the show that originally went out on or around 14th feb one year 
> (theme was valentine's day); may have been 75 or 81 by my reckoning. in the 
> back of one shot was a bbc-regulation-grey-painted mk2, an sfx machine 
> obviously, being used as little more than set-dressing. does anyone on the 
> list know how many machines were at the bbc in total, and how many were 
> rescued from this ignominy? and what's this about some 400's being used for 
> spot-effects? were they set up differently?
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