Mellotronists

Hello all!
     This is going to be the biggest long-shot ever.  Back in the nineties I bought a 
400 from a home-studio owner for $200.00. After a small amount of work 
(unsupervised, as I may have been one of only a couple of 'tron owners in Boston at 
the time) it turned out to be a gem.  Mind you, this is from my current knowledge of 
how bad things can get.  As my first experience with a tron, it was beautiful.  Stable 
and reliable, with strong tapes.
     Of course, (we all have tone or two of these stories) I had to sell it for finacial 
reasons. It was sampled and sold to a tiny vintage music shop off Newbury street 
for $1500. That would have been around 1994/5.  The boutique, which dealt mainly 
very rare, obscure, pricy instruments and audio gear, closed within a year or two of 
my sale to them.  
     I don't know the serial #, unfortunately, but I can tell you a few distinguishing 
features.  It was very clean, had black ball-style wheels on the feet (something I 
added for obvious conveniences) and would have had a couple vintage coins lodged 
under the power supply, probably a wheat-back penny and a nickle.  The sounds 
were original (as there weren't replacements available at the time, I think), MK2 
brass, 3 violins, and flute, and it had a volume pedal.  The tapes would have had the 
start points shifted ever so slightly on the racks (something I had done to adjust a 
rather sloppy attack, good or bad, it seemed to work).  I recall that the capstan felt 
was green.  And that's all I got.
     If any of this sounds like your unit, please let me know, as I would love to know 
that it lives happily ever after, somewhere.
  
-Jack Younger
E4/103S  "The Bastard"