The Mellotron Group

The odder part is that it's posted on the Dutch eBay site...
Nice shots of the machine with the keyboard out of the way.
The top is probably bowed - the top on my M2 is slightlybowed - I 
suspect that shrinkage of the formica at a greater rate that the plywood 
pulls the plywood into the bowed position. Wish there was something to 
'relax' it, but I hesitate to experiment.
Vance

On 8/7/2011 8:42 AM, lsf5275@aol.com wrote:
>
> Probably the lid is a bit bowed but digital cameras often do that as well
> In a message dated 8/7/2011 11:39:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> barrickjohn262@gmail.com writes:
>
>     Is it the photo or does that top looked really bowed?
>
>     On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:24 AM, mellotronmadness
>     <mellotronmadness@yahoo.com.au
>     <mailto:mellotronmadness@yahoo.com.au>> wrote:
>
>         Google does a fairly good if amusing job of translating the
>         french.
>         --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>         <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>, "Hessel Herder"
>         <hessel@...> wrote:
>         >
>         > This one's in Tahiti but ships worldwide
>         >
>         > http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
>         >
>         <http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=200635498524&Category=104
>         <http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=200635498524&Category=104>
>         > 543&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2>
>         >
>         &Item=200635498524&Category=104543&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2
>
>     -- 
>     john barrick
>
>     *Leo got it right the first time*
>     *then he added a second pickup and got it righter*
>
>