I've been tossing around the idea of creating a Mellotron Wiki, or rather someone creating a Mellotron Wiki.
I know there is plenty of information out there, somewhere, about servicing these beasts, DIY adjustments, playing techniques, and how previous Mellotron Stars performed and had their Trons mixed into the records and during live shows.
It's very frustrating digging this sort of information up. The two Mellotron lists are great aids.
Still, I'm thinking we could all benefit and have great fun creating a nice Wiki where once the information is found by someone it can be found by everyone fairly easy. I'm hoping that people from Streetly and Markus to Mike Pinder and such can contribute as they wish.
Let's start tossing these ideas about.
-Sean
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mellowiki?
2009-10-07 by MAinPsych@aol.com
Hi, Sean.
For starters, there's are two informative Mellotron books available
that may answer a lot of your questions:
- my book, The Mellotron
Book
- Nick Awde's book, Mellotron: The
Machine and The Musicians That Revolutionised Rock
Frank Samagaio
El Cajon CA
owner, Red October Audio
Recording
owner, Mellotron MkII #134 (ex-Moodies) / M400 #908
author, The Mellotron Book
In a message dated 10/7/2009 11:39:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
fourtytwominds@yahoo.com writes: