Mellotronists

Seasons Greetings!

We're winding up a banner year for the Mellotron community.

Our friends at Mellotron Archives and Streetly continue to provide us with 
new machines, tapes, refurbs/repairs, parts, and advice.  Markus at MA 
unveiled a dual manual in the spirit of the Mark V, and Streetly unveiled a 
Skellotron that will be the platform for a new Novatron.  New sounds have 
been added to the Mellotron Tape Library in the past year, too.

MONEYPIT (Mellotron Owners of New England...or Mellotron Owners Needing 
Excessive Yen for Purchases for Improving their 'Trons (see the MONEYPIT 
group at http://www.YahooGroups.com )) had several get-togethers, saw some 
restorations/repairs, participated in a workshop/demo, and have started 
some projects due to be complete next year.  That's a lot of stuff.

Documenting the MONEYPIT activities is fun, and I'm glad to announce that 
this year's installment has been finished up (well, maybe a few loose ends 
or photos to come, but it's mostly there).

Off http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/ you will see the variety of 
MONEYPITs for 2004:

- March:
-- An icy introduction to Sharayah, the restored Mark II "Pindertron"
-- A Return to "MONEYPIT South" (see October 2003)

- April:
-- A MONEYPIT trip to New Jersey, including a Morris Canal tour and a visit 
to the Doddy Residence and a radio interview

- May:
-- Memorial Day Weekend in Vermont where we did some work on a machine you 
may hear on an Aerosmith album someday

- July:
-- A Fun Fourth of July with The Moores, The Mellotron Demonstrator, The 
Synertron, and The Mooatron (I wonder if that name will stick...:-) )

- The Gatherings:
-- A Mellotron Workshop in Philadelphia organized by Jeff Coultier


On Christmas Eve Day I spent a little while playing "The Dreary Set" 
(piano, smooth organ, electric guitar) on #1037.  It's definitely a 
Mellotron---feh.  But that's OK.


Have a good holiday season and a Mellotronic 2005!

...kl...
M400 #805 - shunned for the year...no MONEYPIT appearances!
M400 #1037 - no shunning - i'm running!

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Ken Leonard <ken@k...> wrote:
> Seasons Greetings!


Thank you Ken.  I see that you have posted a video clip. (Pierre 
playing Julia and Larry Fast's M400) 
http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0704/mooatron.htm

Clay

>Thank you Ken.  I see that you have posted a video clip. (Pierre
>playing Julia and Larry Fast's M400)
>http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0704/mooatron.htm

Yes.  It was recorded with my digital camera, so it's a little ratty, and 
then it's heavily compressed for the web (this isn't broadcast quality :-) ).

There is another recent video clip that's rather humorous/cute:
http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/tg0412/prep.htm

...at the bottom.

Note that for whatever reason the latest version (9 or 10?) of Windows 
Media Player may not play these (!!??).  The older version (less than 9) 
will play these, and I put in a link to a freeware media player in case 
you're stuck with Windows Media Player.

...kl...
M400 #805 - would rather see girls on film
M400 #1037 - appears nude on the web site

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Ken Leonard" <ken@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Banner Year for MONEYPIT



> >Thank you Ken.  I see that you have posted a video clip. (Pierre
> >playing Julia and Larry Fast's M400)
> >http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0704/mooatron.htm
>
> Yes.  It was recorded with my digital camera, so it's a little ratty, and
> then it's heavily compressed for the web (this isn't broadcast quality
:-) ).
>
> There is another recent video clip that's rather humorous/cute:
> http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/tg0412/prep.htm


Ken

Nice clip! Once scared a cat half to death by letting it tread on a MiniMoog
keyboard. It didn't do it again.  :-)

Andy T.