Mellotronists

Anyone got any idea what happened to Benny Andersson's Mellotron?

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/samples.htm

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Mike


Anyone got any idea what happened to Benny Andersson's Mellotron?


I remember hearing some time back about a band recording at Polar who found
it mouldering away in a corner, so it may well still be there. Apparently
the studio owner didn't seem that fussed about getting it fixed.

Andy T.
M400 #1145

http://freespace.virgin.net/andy.thompson/

Speaking of Mellotrons mouldering away in a corner, I've often wondered what
the chances are of finding an "old masterpiece" by chance at a farm sale, in
a skip etc! What are the chances of anyone not "in the know" realising that
they are sitting on a valuable and historic instrument rather than a load of
old junk?

How many machines are out there that have simply dissapeared from
circulation that could be picked up for a song?

Rob Hill

> Mike
>
>
> Anyone got any idea what happened to Benny Andersson's Mellotron?
>
>
> I remember hearing some time back about a band recording at Polar who
found

> it mouldering away in a corner, so it may well still be there. Apparently
> the studio owner didn't seem that fussed about getting it fixed.
>
> Andy T.
> M400 #1145
>
> http://freespace.virgin.net/andy.thompson/

rahill wrote:

> Speaking of Mellotrons mouldering away in a corner, I've often wondered what
> the chances are of finding an "old masterpiece" by chance at a farm sale, in
> a skip etc! What are the chances of anyone not "in the know" realising that
> they are sitting on a valuable and historic instrument rather than a load of
> old junk?
>
> How many machines are out there that have simply dissapeared from
> circulation that could be picked up for a song?

Well, one day in the late eighties, Richard Burmer called me up and offered me
his M400 for $150.  He's a New Age artist with several albums under his belt
(and a stint in the post-Arthur Brown Kingdom Come) and the source of a few of
the original E-Mu library samples.  He'd converted his Mellotron to samples, and
I was the only person he could think of who might want the old piece of junk.

Of course, I said "yes". (-8

Miracles do occur.

John McIntyre
Physics - Astronomy Domine Dept
Michigan State University
mcintyre@...