Mellotronists

On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 04:11 AM, Ignacio Nieto Carvajal wrote:

> Hello:
>
> The other day I was listening to Canarios' "Ciclos" when I saw in the 
> booklet that the keyboardist used "mellotrons 400 and 400 CM-CIO". 
> Does anybody know what a Mellotron CM-CIO is?
>
Nacho,

What you have there, Nacho my friend, is bad typography. What they 
meant to put down was CMC-10, which is the older, more unstable motor 
control card. Maybe they put it on the recording credits to excuse the 
fact that they couldn't keep the darn mellotron in tune! This unit 
designation is Canarios' invention, though. Certainly, Streetly would 
never have used it to label one of their 400's.

Rick