Mellotronists

Hiya all. I've just recently acquired a copy of "This 
is...Gracious!!". Some pretty awesome mellotron usage here. To my 
point, I keep reading about Martin Kitcat's Mk II, and how it was 
customized, but no mention of what the alterations were. I have also 
read that it was sold in the mid 1990's. Does anyone know more about 
all this?
Cheers.

In a message dated 7/7/02 5:24:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
cdorczy@... writes:


> I keep reading about Martin Kitcat's Mk II, and how it was 
> customized, but no mention of what the alterations were. I have also 
> read that it was sold in the mid 1990's. Does anyone know more about 
> all this?
> 

To my knowledge, this unit is a grey SFX machine with dual lead tapes, and 
only "modification" was that it had dual volume pedals, one for each 
keyboard.  It is now owned by Damon Fox (in L.A.) of Bigelf.  A pic is in The 
Mellotron Book.  

Martin, perhaps you can add more?

Frank Samagaio
M400 #908
author, The Mellotron Book

Bought by DK in 1993, sold to Damon. I have seen MA's
pictures of this tron and it has a name plate (in the
fashion of MKII SFX consoles) that says: "Music
Console" in script. Dave called it the "Noah's Ark
MkII" because it has two of everything...splits,
preamps, pedals etc. Nice looking machine really. I
know that he repainted it...the original photos showed
it in very nasty looking condition. Bought from Kitkat
himself...he's now a music producer in LA.

MK.


--- mellotronz <cdorczy@...> wrote:
> Hiya all. I've just recently acquired a copy of
> "This 
> is...Gracious!!". Some pretty awesome mellotron
> usage here. To my 
> point, I keep reading about Martin Kitcat's Mk II,
> and how it was 
> customized, but no mention of what the alterations
> were. I have also 
> read that it was sold in the mid 1990's. Does anyone
> know more about 
> all this?
> Cheers.
> 
> 


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Dear All,

Sad to say that Martin Kitcat died just before Xmas last.  We've just been 
dealing with Tim Wheatley, the ex Gracious bass guitarist who told us the 
news.

Regarding the MKII, it was a standard MKII SFX and Frank's right, it had 
doubled up lead tapes.  Last I heard was that Damon was having a few problems 
with it but I'm not sure exactly what although noisy pre amps wouldn't be a 
suprise.

Martin
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Hiya everyone. Can anyone direct me to a photo of Martin Kitkat and 
Gracious!? It is for my "Mellotronists Hall Of Fame" in my studio.

At 11:33 PM 2/26/2003 +0000, Christopher Orczy <cdorczy@...> wrote:
>Hiya everyone. Can anyone direct me to a photo of Martin Kitkat and
>Gracious!? It is for my "Mellotronists Hall Of Fame" in my studio.

Building a "Mellotronists Hall of Fame," huh?  Neat!

My pictures are freely available on my web site.  I could do a personalized 
sitting for a reasonable fee.

...kl...M400 #805 - good grief...

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