The Mellotron Group

Thanks for the heads up, Rick.  I figured that I would try and run this 
by some of the learned ones in North America before disturbing the great 
one.  Besides, I've probably done something incorrectly that's caused 
this.  I can already feel the shame.
Happy Friday Night,
johnb
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Rick Blechta wrote:
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> On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:41 PM, john barrick wrote:
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>> I cannot, no matter what I do, get the outer ring of strobe dots to 
>> freeze. I can get the tron in tune by ear, but neither ring of dots is 
>> anywhere near a freeze speed at that point. I think I'm going to pull 
>> it out of the cabinet, check the tach head and then belt tension and 
>> start all over again. Don't know what else to do.
>> johnb
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> You need (and you have to imagine the trumpet fanfare here) the other 
> JB, meaning John Bradley, who very likely had something to do with the 
> building of your mellotron. Only he can tell you EXACTLY what's wrong 
> and how to fix it. Usually this involves a ball peen hammer and a cold 
> steel chisel, but in your case, it might be something less drastic.
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