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I know the patron  saint of playgrounds is St. Francisis of a SeeSaw




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From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, October 3, 2010 11:55:44 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Tuning issues

  
Hey Mark-

   Ahhh, I see now...  The CMC-10 bestows a certain blessing on you!  Does the 
blessing last 15-20 minutes or so?

  Which begs the question, is there a patron saint of Mellotronists?

  -Bruce D.
  (raised Lutheran, but willing to look to my Catholic roots if it will help my 
tron...)


--- On Fri, 10/1/10, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:


>From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Tuning issues
>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 11:42 PM
>
>
>  
>Thanks Bruce, that is weird. In my case with a CM10 I don't usually bless the 
>pitch control, quite the reverse!
>
>Mark
>
>--- On Sat, 2/10/10, Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com>
>>Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Tuning issues
>>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>>Received: Saturday, 2 October, 2010, 6:19 PM
>>
>>
>>  
>>Hi Mark-
>>   Loved your M300A demo!  I like the strings heavy on the reverb too.
>>
>>  Martin will probably clarify this, but the tapes are not stretched.  Somewhere 
>>I read that in the early '70s the M400 tapes were produced in 2 different 
>>locations, resulting in slightly different speeds.  The differences are even 
>>heard when comparing old frames to the new frames.  Weird, huh?  God bless the 
>>pitch control!
>>
>>   -Bruce D.
>>
>>
>>--- On Fri, 10/1/10, markpringnz <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>
>>>From: markpringnz <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
>>>Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Tuning issues
>>>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>>>Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 6:39 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>I've got the old tape rack back on and I have noticed something which seems to 
>>>me to be odd. The old tape rack at normal speed is slightly sharp whilst the new 
>>>rack is slightly flat. 
>>>
>>>
>>>I would have thought that there was more friction and possibly stretching of 
>>>tape which in the old rack which would make it run flat if anything.
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>> 
>> 
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