The Mellotron Group

In a message dated 24/05/2008 22:31:33 GMT Standard Time, lsf5275@aol.com  
writes:

I am  still waiting for my M4000. I ordered it a long time ago. I'm sure I 
was in  the top ten. The Kooks got one before Jimmy or I did. I don't think they 
were  in the top ten. I'm not a pop band with a #2 hit but I paid for over 
90%  of mine and no one will tell me when I can expect mine. I just keep hearing 
 that its coming. I was originally told I would receive it more than a year  
ago.


We don't consider this to be for public consumption but that's  your choice 
Frank.  The facts are:
 
We are over one year late getting the product to market.  We  underestimated 
the development time, the costs, the production time of each unit  and a host 
of other things.  We are therefore under pressure to produce  M4000s and 
M5000s for a host of people including our own agents!  Not a  situation we wanted 
to be in but here we are. 
 
What have we achieved by the delays?  A solid, reliable, innovative  and 
hugely attractive instrument as evidenced by our growing order book.   The M4000, 
with it's plentiful palette of sounds has elevated the  mellotron back into 
the world of serious composing.  The M4000  is going to be used as the backbone 
of a major Hollywood movie  soundtrack and that is an achievement.   

All my business friends warned me that what we were doing was  going to be a 
bigger challenge than we could ever envisage.  They  were right and we were 
wrong.  So much for arrogance!  Speeding up  production is our biggest challenge 
and we are working solidly towards this but  will not compromise quality as a 
result.  
 
I am sad this has become a public matter and this alters the dynamics  
between customer and supplier.  We'll deal with that and the group can  judge us 
however they want but we are getting there........ s l o w l y.
 
Best,
 
Martin 
 
Streetly Electronics - All Things Mellotronic

_www.mellotronics.com_ (http://www.mellotronics.com/) 

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