Mellotronists

Dear All,
 
Got invited by someone who lives quite near me to come and have a look at  
his Mellotron as (I quote)"bought in 1975 and haven't powered it up since  1982".
 
Thankfully all this time had been spent indoors in a reasonable atmosphere  
so the major problems were dirt and the tapes being set in a permanent W shape. 
 A number of pre-flight checks were carried out, plus some cleaning,  
tightening and de-magging the beast was powered up and after the usual  CMC10 pause 
it fired up as keen as you like. With a set of my tapes in it played  really 
well - much to my surprise!
 
Result - one of the tidiest M400's I've ever seen back in action...
 
Norm