Mellotronists

In a message dated 21/04/2006 08:13:39 GMT Daylight Time,  jonesalley@... 
writes:

just  how cutting-edge the instruments were as well as how hard the  
technology of the time had to be pushed to make them  feasible.


Dear All,
 
Very cutting edge. It seems to me that things have gone backwards since  
then. I was an apprentice (old-school, where you make tea for a year before they  
let you loose on real things). Nowadays I am being told that you can't make  
things to the sort of tolerances that I had made by hand in apprentice  school.
 
When guitar tweaking you often work to similar "impossible"  tolerances!
 
Norm