The Mellotron Group

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Daily <pocotron@...> 
wrote:
>
>    I am still trying to figure out the reason for the
> flywheel hole.  Bearing replacement?  Or, maybe the
> flywheel & capstan tried to escape when the tapes &
> frame were being butchered.

I wondered if it might be for pitch bending*, without needing to have 
the top removed.

Jim Bailey

*I seem to recall reading here (or more likely, the old list) that this 
is sometimes called pitch "diving". If such a thing were done using a 
muff cover, would that make it muff diving?