The Mellotron Group

A shame that such a beauty is relegated to a museum. I'm sure there 
are plenty of folks here that could give it a better home.

Bernie

"Do a little dance,
 Make a little love,
 Get down tonight,
 Get down tonight."
-- KC and the Sunshine Band


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "John Beresford" 
<j.k.beresford@...> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdK_uYu5G8Y
> >
>