Boy, does this bring back memories! When I got to the McGill Faculty of Music in 1971, the Electronic Music Studio looked just as it did in the photo. The next year we moved to a new building and they now had three small studios. One was filled with Le Caine gadgets. The oscillator bank was my favorite. Unfortunately, the Multi-track wasn't working all that well and no one seemed interested in fixing it (we also had the largest Moog modular synth in creation and everyone wanted to use that). A couple of us tried to get the multi-track working and the results were interesting but not mind-blowing. When I got my M400, I stored it at the Faculty and it got played a lot by everyone in the studio. Somewhere in the basement is a piece I recorded with mellotron, the oscillator bank and Le Caine's Electronic Sackbut which was a really fantastic instrument. The next time I'm in Montreal, I'm going to drop by the school and see what's become of all those cool toys.
Le Caine already seen a mellotron, but not an M400 when he dropped by the studio one day. I took it apart for him and he had his head inside it for quite sometime, proclaiming it "a very elegant solution", whatever that meant.
Thanks, Clay!