Mellotronists

> > http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/mps101803/start.htm
> >
> > This item came from the factory.  Its use is certainly questionable on a
> > Mellotron.
>
>I don't think so (this was several years ago). I seem to remember a standard
>knob, but the pot had been replaced by one working as you describe.

It was probably the same mechanism.  Basically it looked like they cut the 
pitch pot shaft in half and stuck the top half into a reduction gear and 
stuck pitch knob on top, and into the bottom of the reduction gear they 
jammed the pitch pot shaft.  (From what I recall the reduction gear looks 
like a cylinder with two sections and holes at either end for the shafts.)

Apparently someone thought that the Mellotron is a precision instrument 
that should be fine-tuned.  Sheaaahhhh, right.

...kl...
M400 #805 - precision instrumentation...not
M400 #1037 - got the shaft (the whole shaft, no screwy pitch gear thingy)

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