Mellotronists group photo

Yahoo Groups archive

Mellotronists

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 23:09 UTC

Message

another M400 accounted for

2006-07-01 by charel196

serial # 1373....restored by me for the owner and sanded/repainted by a professional 
cabinet worker in Findlay OH....owned by Mr. Chuck Cobb (who doesn't even play 
keyboards...he just wanted it as a "trophy" for his huge prog music room)  It has my last 
tape rack from my old unit (#328)-
8 choir,3 violins,split M/F choir. The keyboard needs a complete set of rubber rollers but 
everything else is new or refurbished. Chuck and I disassembled the entire inside and 
cleaned and detailed every piece. The tron was sitting in the attic of a local female vocalist 
who told us that her old keyboard player "abandoned" it years before and he never came 
back for it. There was also a Rhodes and an Arp String Ensemble which were beat to 
shit.The tron had spider webs inside and the obligatory cigarette burns....it had the 
standard cello/violins/flute tape set which actually still played. The motor board was a 
CMC10...we installed Dave Kean's last motor board(SMS5?) and new preamp/pots. We did 
all this several years back...the tron now sits on it's cutom made floor stand which 
matches the white finish, and Chuck drapes a British flag over it as a dust cover.
  In an unrelated note....doesn't new age composer GANDALF still own a MKV? There's tron 
on his new album "Sacred River".

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.