Mellotronists

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Brady Arnold wrote:

> Dear friends... I have been working on a project for quite some time 
> to produce a vitrual Mellotron that you can plug into your PC.  This 
> keyboard contains all 8 seconds of all 35 notes of all the famous 
> sounds like: 3 violins (sampled from an mkII, all 35 keys), choir
> (m400 / 35), brass (mkII / 35), flute (m400 / 35), clarinet (mkII / 
> 35), and many more combinations of patches that have been used on 
> famous recordings such as a "watcher mix" that has been made from an 
> mkII witch was the model that banks played that particular tune 
> from.  The keyboard will have 37 keys starting at f and ending at f, 
> and will be built into a durable light wieght m400 style cabinet
> (white, or stone texture)... The size of the whole thing will be 
> slightly smaller than a real m400 so that it can actually be 
> shipped...  I will leave a link when I make the first models 
> available...  I am looking to price these units somewhere around 
> $350.00 (US) (plus or minus)     STAY TUNED!  -Brady Chamberlin


me thinks you will have problems using the name "mellotron" on them.
trademarks... patents... all that legal stuff [though IANAL...]
better to rename it now than rename it later. [a "chambertron"?]

...jeff