Mellotronists

Hello Jon , and everyone else here,

Mine's an M400S, bought in 1989 from Notting Hill Music Exchange in
West London for £300 (that was the one (the only) good thing about
them being unfashionable at the time, you could still find them quite
cheaply then!) - serial no. #581 - was built around early 1972 I'm told. 

Since moving house from London last year and now living in
Bedfordshire I suspect it might be "the only tron in the village" but
you never know, I could be wrong....

As far as I'm aware it has had just one major service (not counting
routine maintenance by myself), from Streetly by our very own JB in
1978 (SMS2 fitted among a few other things), and since then have
treated it to new EMI tapes (got those in 2004 - 4 frames so far).
Still very stable and playable but quite a tatty cabinet/tone control
not working, and generally needs refurbishing throughout, so money
permitting, a trip to the Streetly chaps will definitely be on the
cards one of these days!


Tony Swettenham
M400S #581




--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...> wrote:
>
> Anybody ever asked if everyone on the list who is fortunate enough
to have a Mellotron (or Chamberlin) would tell the list so that we can
see how many and what makes and models of instruments are accounted
for by this group?  I'd think it would be an interesting survey,
especially if everyone that has one actually responds.  I'll start:
> 
> 
> 
> Mellotron M400 #886, Kansas, USA (acquired 2001)
>