Mellotronists

This is pretty much a question for Martin Smith.  

Curious: 

Have you had a fairly steady turnover of Mk-II's over the last 
several years (like 1-2 a year or whatever)?
I was wondering if you envision your supply staying fairly steady or 
if the limited number of them are bound
to be restored then held by collectors.  Meaning that your 
availability to source them will be drying up sometime
in the not too distant future. 

And if that's the case, I was wondering if you envision the 
possibility of building new dual-manual cycling Trons.  They
wouldn't necessarily have to be exact clones of the Mk-II's, just
capture all the necessary bits about them.  Obviously they would
be in extremely limited quantities and what like $25,000 or so.

I wonder how many of the dual-manual 400 style Tron's Markus is
selling for $10k?

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I received the following email from .se which Markus gave me 
permission to post:
"Since winter NAMM 2005 we are taking custom orders for new MkII's. 
The new model will be called MkIIx and have 10 banks on each side. 
The price will depend on the options wanted, but is on the region of 
$19,000.
In the near future there will be a test in an appropriate magazine."

To which I say, WAY TO GO - THAT'S OUTSTANDING!!!!

That seems like a pretty reasonable price for such a powerful 
machine (not that it's a possibility for me).  

I must say, it's a strange state of affairs that we have two separate
groups servicing our small community.  But I really appreciate the
efforts of John, Martin, and Markus in keeping the Trons alive and
viable.  Kean seems to have checked out but I've talked to him in
years past and found him helpful.  

Who knows, maybe Chamberlin, Birotron, and Orchestron groups will
follow.  OK maybe not.


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "dscr22" <dscr22@y...> wrote:
> This is pretty much a question for Martin Smith.  
> 
> Curious: 
> 
> Have you had a fairly steady turnover of Mk-II's over the last 
> several years (like 1-2 a year or whatever)?
> I was wondering if you envision your supply staying fairly steady 
or 

> if the limited number of them are bound
> to be restored then held by collectors.  Meaning that your 
> availability to source them will be drying up sometime
> in the not too distant future. 
> 
> And if that's the case, I was wondering if you envision the 
> possibility of building new dual-manual cycling Trons.  They
> wouldn't necessarily have to be exact clones of the Mk-II's, just
> capture all the necessary bits about them.  Obviously they would
> be in extremely limited quantities and what like $25,000 or so.
> 
> I wonder how many of the dual-manual 400 style Tron's Markus is
> selling for $10k?
> 
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