The Mellotron Group

Because of the age of these cycling machines, Jerry Korb would never cycle more than one station at a time for fear of spilling tapes. The 1/4" tape is also more prone to static buildup, causing tape stickies. Fortunately, the new machines don't and won't suffer this problem.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Hammonddave <hammonddave2004@...> wrote:
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> So I experienced my first cycling mishap tonight (that didn't take long)... I cycled from station 1 to 6, I heard a loud high pitched squeal, and some of the tape was misaligned on the rear drum.
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> So my question is,,,, should I try try to manually roll the drum back to station 1 hoping the tape straightens itself out and realigns?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> David
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