Mellotronists

>1/ Has anybody ever framed up a set of tapes backwards? Either 
>intentionally or not? (i.e. so that the start of the note is at the end of 
>the tape)

I ran into one machine with the tapes in upside down.  The owner was 
wondering why the sound was so muffled.

On #805's original tape set there was one tape in backwards.  This was 
because the tape had been replaced with one recorded with the A & C tracks 
swapped.  So the guy put it in backwards instead of getting the tape fixed.

>2/ Is it possible, on a MkII, to leave off the index markings and have one 
>48-second note?

No.  Essentially a Mark II becomes a Mark V when the stations aren't 
cycling.  Instead of having the tapes fastened to the retention bars in a 
frame as in the M400, they're fastened to the drums and are locked into one 
station that way--one bank of sounds.

If you took the chain off the front drum and allowed it to turn, then, 
theoretically, yes you could have a very long note, but the take-up box 
wouldn't handle all that tape!

...kl...
M400 #805 - !seltaeb woh--ojom sdrawkcab taht sekil!
M400 #1037 - needs tape replacement

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