The Mellotron Group

If the Trons come with it, I'll buy it.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
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> Today a man came to look at my house (it's for sale) and when he walked  
> into my shop his eyes nearly popped out of his head. He knew exactly what he 
> was  looking at, even though he had never seen a Mellotron, much less one 
> completely  disassembled. He was an electrical engineer by trade and had 
> assembled PAIA  modular synth years back. Not a musician, but a total gadget 
> freak. I took him  in to see the M4000, the 4-track and a couple of nearly 
> completed M-400s that go  home this weekend. Thirty minutes slipped by in a wink. 
> I hope he buys the  house.
>  
> Frank
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> In a message dated 5/24/2010 8:02:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> pocotron@... writes:
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> PAIA made a similar one in the mid '70's called the  Gnome.  Somewhere I 
> have one I assembled from a kit.  All  analog, unstable as hell, many 
> calibration pots inside, therefore a real  pain to tune.  Fun anyway.
>  
>    -Bruce D.
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> --- On Mon, 5/24/10, lsf5275@..., 5/24/10, <lsf5275@...> wrote:
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> From:  lsf5275@...<lsf5275@...>
> Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Korg Monotron
> To:  newmellotrongroup@To:  To:
> Date: Monday, May 24,  2010, 2:24 PM
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> I plan to be the first guy in my neighborhood not to get one of  these.
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> In a message dated 5/24/2010 3:48:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> ecclesreinson@ rogers.com writes:
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> Before you go out and get a cheap Korg Monotron ribbon  thingy...Watch this:
> _http://www.youtube. com/watch?  v=CFr8w4sxugg_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFr8w4sxugg) 
> Maybe if it had CV output it might be a cheap /  useful ribbon controller, 
> but as it is it's kind of useless isn't  it?
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> What's twice as useless as a Monotron? Two of them.
> _http://www.youtube. com/watch?  v=du9P8nMulvA_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9P8nMulvA)
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