Re: [Mellotronists] Dual manual mellotron in this month's TapeOp
2006-04-23 by Jerry Korb
Greetings KL and gang, Brian Kehew has a white MK-II #125, which he says is original white from the factory. There was a picture of this Tron in my database once. If I find it, will post to the List. Check on DK's Website, it may be there as well. Cheers, -JK- _______________________________________________________________ Ken Leonard wrote:
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> At 12:06 AM 4/23/2006, jonesalley wrote: > >Scratch that M400 remark - that does sound like the front of a Mark II. > >Sort of a dove grey, perhaps? Were there any white Mark IIs? Aren't the FX > >Consoles light grey? > > The FX Consoles for the BBC were gray, but Jimmy's was originally a dull > black, refinished to a nice black: > > http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0405/fx6u2.htm > http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0405/images/mp0504-28.jpg > > You can see some gray guys here in Ryso Sekine's Mellotron Room: > > http://www.geocities.jp/mellotronics/ryosekine.html > > Note that there was an M400 based FX Console as well. > > >The mellotron is white. Has the following controls, above > >the keyboard, from the left: a 1/4" jack, 3 buttons marked > >ABC (i'm guessing, each letter cooresponds to a sound on a > >tape rack) a set of 6 buttons marked 1-6 (tape banks?), a > >set of 5 buttons, alternating white/black/white/black/white - > >can't tell what the black ones are marked, though the white > >ones are marked ABC. The center of the instrument has two > >knobs, one marked rhythm and the other I can't make out (3 > >letters, starts with F). Over the right manual, from the > >left, a large black knob, two smaller knobs (reverb and > >volume) and another set of 6 buttons (though I can't see the > >6th). > > It sounds like a Mark II, although the 1/4" jack is unusual, unless it was > custom (although you may be mistaking the keyswitch on the left for a 1/4" > jack...the FX Console has a 1/4" jack on the right). If it's white, that's > unusual as well. I don't know if any came from the factory like that or if > it has been refinished that way (Streetly refurbished units are sometimes > painted if the original finish is toast). > > Mark II: > > http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0304/pindertron3.htm > > The six white buttons are the station select buttons---what causes the > tapes to shuttle back and forth between sound banks. The ABC (white) and > A/MIX/B/MIX/C buttons (white and black) are track select. > > Note that the FX Console's switches and knobs are different from the Mark > II's. The FX has four sets of ABC track select switches (instead of one > ABC and two A/AB/B/BC/C switches as in the Mark II), four faders, a master > fader, and pitch--no reverb. The FX Console has two split head blocks > designed to play one track at a time (no mixing adjacent tracks), which is > why they're all ABC. The Mark II's left side has a split head block---ABC > only for the rhythm (you wouldn't normally mix two rhythm tracks), with > track mixing capability for the 2nd half of the split head block (fills) > and the whole right keyboard (lead sounds, one head block). Both the FX > Console and the Mark II have six stations. > > ...kl... > M400 #805 - one head block > M400 #1037 - one station > > ** Ken Leonard - Web Table of Contents: http://www.kleonard.com > >> CD available! "Improvised Waves: Mellotron/synth improvisations" > ** Get Outdoors New England: http://www.GONewEngland.org > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >