The Mellotron Group

Jon,
What a gorgeous instrument!Congradulations.
Pete

Jon wrote:
> I was contacted last week by a production company that needed some 
> nice current photographs of a Hammond Novachord for a project they are 
> working on.  I responded and told them that I would be happy to try to 
> oblige them but would need a few days to supply it, and they said that 
> was fine, their deadline wasn't until today to submit the photos for 
> approval.
>  
> I spent four solid days excavating and cleaning my nightmare of a 
> garage enough to reorganize and make room to pull a Novachord out and 
> be able to set some backdropping in order to get some decent photos.  
> I spent another day cleaning, polishing, and doing minor repairs to 
> the prettiest of my Novachords in hopes that I could get it looking 
> good enough to pose for some pretty pictures. 
>  
> A photographer friend of mine came over and took shots under different 
> lightings and from different angles, took the camera home and did some 
> cropping and editing, and came up with a nice array of attractive 
> Novachord photos.  I submitted the photos and got word back yesterday 
> that the Art Director for the project was very pleased with the 
> results and approved the photographs for use.  They sent releases for 
> my photographer and I to sign, and I faxed them back today, so it's a 
> done deal.
>  
> A photograph of my Hammond Novachord is going to appear in the 
> companion DVD included in the upcoming release of Disney's "Pinocchio" 
> on DVD, and I'm going to get name credit as the owner of the 
> instrument!  Even if I can't be famous, at least my toys can...
>  
> So, here's Novachord #1431, looking prettier than she has in decades.  
> Still waiting on restoration, so not functional yet, but looking like 
> this is really making getting all of the electrical work done a lot 
> more urgent!
>