The Mellotron Group

I personally would love a dual manual M4000D (Markus' digital unit) in a replica MKII wooden cabinet with authentic controls, an accessible hard drive with the entire library, and digital reverb/efx with some nice JBL speakers in the cabinet:)

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, trolldelux@... wrote:
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> Seems to me that Streetly went to a lot of effort to get all of the musical features of the MkII w/o any of the (considerable) issues.  The MkII looks like a product of it's time, and anything like a remake would be purely cosmetic.  And does anybody want the original LH keyboard contents back?
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> From: Sean <fourtytwominds@...>
> To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jan 2, 2011 7:43 pm
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: just throwing this out there too
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, john barrick <barrickjohn262@> wrote:
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> > Trying to remember what the last MK II that surfaced went for at auction. I
> > think it was from a Scottish recording studio, and didn't Brian Kehew end up
> > with it? Can't remember if it was $12K or $20K, but that was before it went
> > to Streetly(?) for its restoration and then shipping to the states.
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> > The bottom line is these machines are extremely rare, and you'd be better
> > off saving for a new M5000 from Streetly (dual manual, 48 different sounds),
> > for, under the current exchange rate, less than $20,000. Of course, you may
> > win the lottery. Sure, a MK II would be nice, but for less, you get much
> > more current (and reliable) technology.
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> > PS - you'll see an Ochestron long before that MK II shows up.
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> Makes me wonder, how many MkIIs are unaccounted for? (I also wonder how Mellotrons made it to California's Central Valley, my bet: 0)
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> I've got a pipe dream, that someday I'll have the money, and have the guys at Streetly build me a new MkII. The size and looks of those things command respect.
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> -Sean
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