Mellotronists

Dear fellow Mellotronists!

After reading Frank Samagaio's (IMHO brilliant) Mellotron book, I 
took my faithful #405 to our rehearsal room and kicked it back to 
life. After cleaning and some routine maintenance it sounds quite 
well again.
Now I'm looking for an improved motor controller, my CMC10 shows the 
usual problems (high frequency noise and pitch problems with six or 
more keys pressed).
Does anyone know where to get an improved controller like the SMS2, 5 
etc? There used to be an SMS5MR for sale at mellotron.com, which 
ain't there no more.
Are there schematics available (eg. in the M400 service manual) or 
has anybody out there one of these controllers for sale?

Thanks for any kind of information!

Season's greetings and kind regards

Reinhard
(M400# 405, MKII 104)

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, rhintraeger wrote:

> Dear fellow Mellotronists!
> 
> After reading Frank Samagaio's (IMHO brilliant) Mellotron book, I 
> took my faithful #405 to our rehearsal room and kicked it back to 
> life. After cleaning and some routine maintenance it sounds quite 
> well again.
> Now I'm looking for an improved motor controller, my CMC10 shows the 
> usual problems (high frequency noise and pitch problems with six or 
> more keys pressed).
> Does anyone know where to get an improved controller like the SMS2, 5 
> etc? There used to be an SMS5MR for sale at mellotron.com, which 
> ain't there no more.
> Are there schematics available (eg. in the M400 service manual) or 
> has anybody out there one of these controllers for sale?


contact streetly via: tronbros@...
they have a replacement motor card that will make you and your
m400 very happy indeed.

...jeff
[m400 #364]


> Thanks for any kind of information!
> 
> Season's greetings and kind regards
> 
> Reinhard
> (M400# 405, MKII 104)
> 
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Hello Jeff, Martin and Jerry!

Thanks a lot for your immediate reply!
I'm going to contact Martin.

A Happy New Year 2004 to all of you

Best wishes

Reinhard
(M400/#405, MkII/#104)

I was wondering about this project last night.  Is there sufficient
material submitted to finally put this into play?  Is the "Son of
Rime..." CD going to happen?  With the long-overdue Systems Theory
album getting out the door (January), I was doing some placement of
tunes onto sampler compilations, and this project came back into
mind.  I got to thinking that we might want to slip in another track
in lieu of "The Cool Vibe Of Asia C.", since it's going to be on our
album, and we'd rather have a not-yet-on-an-album track on a sampler/
compilation set.  Or alternatively, we're willing to offer another
cut in addition if there's not yet enough material to warrant release
of "Son of Rime...".
-- 
Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
http://systemstheory.net	internet music project
http://thecleanersystem.com	software for dry cleaners
NP: nothing