The Mellotron Group

It is an SFX console, obviously a rare black one. I know about this
one as I have played with it for a few hours about 5-6 years ago. It
is one a few that were painted black orinigally before they started
with the standard BBC grey finish. This one was used at ATV studios in
the UK and was the one used on "Emergency ward 10", a popular hospital
drama in the 60's. It had about 6 specially made up tapes in amongst
the rest which were a different colour and these had hospital type
sounds on that were not standard. The place in the video clip is the
National Media Museum's storage facility in Blackdyke Mill near
Bradford, Yorkshire. When I saw it it had a poorly left hand cycling
motor that had burnt out. Probably had it's clutch over tightened
which can jam the gearbox. The curator told me at the time they were
planning to display it but had not yet thought of a context -
apparently they still haven't.

John B


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Bernie" <kornowicz@...> wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdK_uYu5G8Y
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