The Mellotron Group

Can anyone tell me if the M400SM originated from Streetly, or was it a 
soley American variant?  I hate the control panel face plate on it.
Curious in Cincinnati.

When I got my servo motor stuff installed by Streetly they wanted to
change my faceplate to that and also( I think) the sticker on the back
that had my serial number, Luckily they asked my permission and I
specified to keep it original.

> Can anyone tell me if the M400SM originated from Streetly, or was it a
> soley American variant?  I hate the control panel face plate on it.
> Curious in Cincinnati.
>

In a message dated 6/28/2009 2:01:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
astroboy@cinci.rr.com writes:

Can anyone tell me if the M400SM originated from Streetly, or was it a  
soley American variant? I hate the control panel face plate on  it.
Curious in Cincinnati.


 
If the black face is shiney, you should be able to peal the black sticker  
off (it takes a lot of work) and you'll find a regular Mellotron face plate  
underneath. Acetone helps, and it won't damage the silk screened writing on 
the  face plate. I have removed about a half dozen of them. Oddly, the 
control panel  face plate that was on the Black Mellotron was different from the 
others I've  seen and was a cheesy tin piece of crap that currently resides 
in the Fairfax  County dump.
 
Frank  

           
This is what was under  one of those black faceplates. I also removed the 
"gold" inserts  from the knobs and put brushed aluminum ones in to match the  
faceplate. This is for #1334
   
This is the faceplate  that was on 1562 when I first got it. I eventually 
put stock knobs  on it but the face plate itself was in such good shape that 
I left  it in place. It would come off if I wanted to remove it. Notice  
that the labeling for tracks A, B & C are  reversed.
   
If yours looks like  this one, you may be screwed. Markus has some original 
ones  that he might part with. I have a couple but I'm not parting with  
them

 

 





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In a message dated 6/29/2009 2:16:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wonggster@gmail.com writes:

Was this a Sound Sales thing ?  I have this huge matching Mellotron  decal 
on the front of my  machine.

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So does that mean the stylized M logo/black faceplate was a product of 
Sound Sales?  My machine, an M400SM (1407 with the big sticker on the 
back and the black M400SM logo on the control panel faceplate) never had 
bottom mount brackets for the spillbox - there were no holes drilled  
for them.  The spillbox brackets were at the top.  When the later 
version of the frame (rectangular side panels as opposed to swept back) 
was introduced,  did top mounting of the spillbox become the standard 
procedure?


lsf5275@aol.com wrote:

>
>
> Yes
>  
> In a message dated 6/29/2009 2:16:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> wonggster@gmail.com writes:
>
>     Was this a Sound Sales thing ?  I have this huge matching
>     Mellotron decal on the front of my machine.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> It's raining cats and dogs -- Come to PawNation 
> <http://www.pawnation.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000008>, a place where pets 
> rule!
>

1562 was the same way when I acquired it. I bet there's a nice pretty  
standard faceplate under the black sticker.
 
 
In a message dated 6/29/2009 4:01:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
astroboy@cinci.rr.com writes:

 
 


So does that mean the stylized M logo/black faceplate was a product of  
Sound Sales? My machine, an M400SM (1407 with the big sticker on the  
back and the black M400SM logo on the control panel faceplate) never had  
bottom mount brackets for the spillbox - there were no holes drilled  
for them. The spillbox brackets were at the top. When the later  
version of the frame (rectangular side panels as opposed to swept back)  
was introduced, did top mounting of the spillbox become the standard  
procedure?

_lsf5275@aol.lsf_ (mailto:lsf5275@aol.com)   wrote:
>
>
> Yes
> 
> In a message dated  6/29/2009 2:16:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> _wonggster@gmail.won_ (mailto:wonggster@gmail.com)   writes:
>
> Was this a Sound Sales thing ? I have this huge  matching
> Mellotron decal on the front of my  machine.
>
>
>  ------------  ----  ----  ----  ----  ---- 
>  It's raining cats and dogs -- Come to PawNation 
> <_http://www.pawnatiohttp://www.phttp://www.pawnah_ 
(http://www.pawnation.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000008) >,  a place where pets 
> rule!
> 





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Mine was. My big ugly sticker was on the back of mine, right above the  
removable panel.
 
 
In a message dated 6/29/2009 4:53:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wonggster@gmail.com writes:

Looks  like they were assembled differently from how the plans indicated, 
kind of  like US cars from around that  time.


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