The Mellotron Group

Frank, 
Which set of strobe markers are the U.S. ones?
-Jack


--- On Thu, 6/26/08, lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com> wrote:

> From: lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] tuning
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 10:20 AM
> In a message dated 6/26/2008 7:04:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight
> Time,  
> e4103s@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> Yes,  U.S. power (assuming you are in the the States) runs
> at 60 cycles, so 
> if you  shut out all the lights in the room and plug in a
> small lamp and shine 
> it on  the flywheel while you turn the tuning pot, it
> should line things up at 
> 440.  Keep in mind, incandescent strobing is pretty quick
> and the dots on the 
>  flywheel are pretty far apart so you may need to adjust
> your eyes to see it. 
>  Pretty brilliant of them to consider this, although with
> the CMC-10's that  
> were in many of these things, I'm sure they needed all
> the help they could get 
>  until the SMS's were made. 
> -Jack
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any florescent light makes it easy.
>  
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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