However.
They constantly credit Richard Tandy with 'Mellotron' on their albums when I hear nary a note of the instrument on any of their recordings. Their endless split screen 'performance' videos (such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFM0pYyUcY) show a Mellotron on the rig, but never seems to be used and appears to be little more than a keyboard stand. The three or four guys in the band who actually played strings were pretty much only cosmetically used subsequent to their album 'On The Third Day', their use being supplanted by a full string orchestra under Louis Clark's direction who could actually play in tune at more or less the same time, so it wasn't used to beef up the strings. The choir they used was a thirty voice selection of sessionists, so no eight voice choir in there as well.
So...where did they ever use a Mellotron?
-- Mike Dickson, Edinburgh Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson