The Mellotron Group

Sean, if you know someone with a Nordwave or Electro the Italian Accordian
is in the library so you might try and sample it from there.

> Firstly: how can I obtain "Mk II Italian Accordion" samples? Neither
> M-Tron nor the Pinder CD have it, which is quite a bummer when I want to
> learn those early Moodies licks. The easiest, I think, would be to get
> unadulterated .wav files that I can then compile into a soundfont real
> easy.
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> Second: this is aimed more at the repair guys like Frank I think; where
> should I start if I'm trying to teach myself audio-electronics repair and
> such. I contacted the one (and apparently only) organ repair guy in the
> San Joaquin Valley about apprenticing and he's apparently way too busy. My
> father is an industrial electrician, so I got the basics of electronics,
> what a diode does, what a resistor does, etc. What neither of us
> understand is what does a 1k ohm resistor do to an audio signal as
> compared to a 10k ohm resistor, so forth. Where do I start to learn?
>
> Thirdly: related; where could I track down the schematic for a Conn
> Caprice 432. I've been browsing the net and nothing seems to be available.
> Conn has been out of business for a while. I want to start work on this
> organ, even if it's relatively simple things like replacing caps.
>
> Fourth: What exactly does the tone knob do to the audio signal? I keep
> reading places that it's a lowpass trim starting at 10kHz. When I try to
> recreate this digitally using audiounits lowpass filter at 10kHz I don't
> get anything close to the effect of the tone knob as it works in M-Tron.
> What am I not knowing?
>
> Thanks all
> -Sean
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