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Knowing that all Wikipedians do appreciate some feedback now and then — It is nice that this article was there when I needed it. Femto 12:02, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I thought i started this article earlier this year but maybe i only added to it? anyway my name isn't there and i can't remember now, i didn't know Vangelis used it in AC? that makes me want one even more now :) Nick Boulevard 22:11, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I would like to add that I think this is a prime example of a great Wikipedia article, and if it has not already been, should be, a Featured Article. As a side note, this has been mentioned on the Nine Inch Nails article already, but Trent Reznor owns John Lennon's Mellotron, and has used it in many recordings he produced. Keep up the great work. --Insomniak 04:03, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
There should be a mention the tape springs (and here) that were a crucial part of the operation of the key mechanisms. The wikipedia article leaves the reader wondering how the hell the tapes got rewound after a key was played. os 13:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
The Mellotron in popular music section seems to take a non-neutral and defensive or accusatory point of view following the parts where bands are listed. I am no expert on the matter but it does not seem to be an appropriate tone for an encyclopedia. Agonotheta (talk) 14:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Indeed it does. This entire section is non-neutral, admits to being editorial and controversial, and fails to provide any information to the reader beyond "somebody thinks that mellotron sampling is the worst thing ever". As the preceding paragraph provides a neutral, concise overview of this very issue, I have deleted this entire section. Take it to the talk page if necessarily, but diatribes have no place in articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.199.188 (talk) 22:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
That whole section was a fan-cruft car-crash. I did some pruning. More is still required. Entries in that section of the article should be NOTABLE as per WP:NOT and should not violate WP:OR --feline1 (talk) 10:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
I though it should be noted that Trent Reznor now owns the Mellotron previously owned by John Lennon. He used it on his albums Broken, The Fragile, and Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar.
Some could throw that in there if they want...
No, No, No, No, No, No, No, Not true and never has been true.
Reznor does not own it. He rented or borrowed it.
John Lennon's Mellotron "resides" with Jimmy Iovine Jr. in the executive offices of Interscope Records. It was sold by The Record Plant in New York. It is also likely an asset of the business and does not belong to Jimmy Iovine Jr.
And John Lennon did NOT use this Mellotron on any recordings with the Beatles other than to record effects for Tommorrow Never Knows. It was strictly his home machine used on his own private recordings. The Strawberry Fields etc. machine was a rental unit hired in (long gone now), and the White Album machine was a BBC effects unit.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.26.206 (talk) 20:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
There is nothing worse than a purist. The mellotron was a sampler after all, so the samples of a sampler shouldn't anger people so much. :)
No - music historians / students, others come here looking for hard to find information on a historic musical instrument and this article should be strictly limited to that. Digital sample use of any instrument or sound belongs in a separate Wikipedia entry. A page of library reference quality information on the original Mellotron should not be used as a platform or space for discussion, endorsement or advertisement of digital samples of any instrument.
Who is the tw*t who keeps vandalising the article? --feline1 (talk) 14:26, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
(By the way, I was talking about the person who keeps adding their paragraph of tedious rant about real-mellotrons-vs-samples), not about fancruft entries attempting to list every album in the world featuring a mellotron...--feline1 (talk) 16:49, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't think that person is vandalizing at all. He (or she) is talking about a type of fraud I think. I've just checked planet mellotron out. It talks about that just like the paragraph mentions. What's wrong with people knowing about that??
There's nothing wrong with using samples. But using samples and saying it's the real deal? Lying is just not cool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.26.60 (talk) 21:12, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Yawn. See WP:NPOV, WP:WEIGHT, WP:NOR, WP:NOT and WP:DICK amoungst others--feline1 (talk) 21:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I checked the guidelines out -- most of the entire article is questionable. But Planet Mellotron is an excellent source. I suggest you check it out. You'll learn something. Maybe you don't think the last part belongs, but others might. I think it should stay cause it's equal to all the claims about what bands used the Mellotron. If all the aspects aren't there, then the whole article should be pulled. And sorry but if the last link and choice of words is directed to me personally - just for sticking up for the persons'entry??.... well that suggests more about your character than the person you're trying to censor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.26.53 (talk) 07:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by inserting commentary or your personal analysis into an article, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
Isn't this a little bit too overkill? It's trivial, cloggy and messy. Michaelterren (talk) 03:04, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
I removed the comment about Mike Pinder where it said "He subsequently introduced the Mellotron to John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, who used it to make tape loops for their song "Tomorrow Never Knows"."
The Beatles did not use a Tron to make the tapes, though some tron sounds were used on the tapes. From the Wikipedia page about the song itself:
"McCartney supplied a bag of ¼ inch audio tape loops he had made at home after listening to Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge. By disabling the erase head of a tape recorder and then spooling a continuous loop of tape through the machine while recording, the tape would constantly overdub itself... McCartney encouraged the other Beatles to use the same effects and create their own loops.
The numerous tapes McCartney supplied were played on five individual BTR3 tape machines, and controlled by EMI technicians in studio two at Abbey Road on 7 April. The four Beatles controlled the faders of each machine while Martin varied the stereo panning..."
"The tape loops contained:
* A "seagull" or "American Indian" whooping effect (which was McCartney shouting/laughing). * An orchestral chord of B flat major (from a Sibelius symphony) (0:19) * A Mellotron Mk.II, played with the "flute" tape set (0:22) * Another Mellotron played in 6/8 from B flat to C, using the "3 violins" tape set (0:38)
The flute sound was never used for tape loops in Tomorrow Never Knows. That is a book error repeated on the internet. The sounds used are strings and brass. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.3.100.86 (talk) 06:21, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
(rest left out) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drumbent (talk • contribs) 06:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
http://www.vemia.co.uk/mellotron/#Novatron_Mark_V
This website which is mentioned at http://www.mellotronics.co.uk/links.htm describes a full list of models. Could this be used at the quote on quote citation?
User99671 (talk) 07:08, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
I changed the bit about Led Zeppelin using Mellotron in the song "Kashmir." While it is true that John Paul Jones used it to recreate the lines in concert, the album version is accompanied by a real Moroccan orchestra. --PAJ
I don't want to touch this entry, But I'm wodering where Did The art of noise of the melotron? I don't remember any instant of them using it. (anon)
Not sure but I think the Art of Noise's 1998 album The Seduction of Claude DeBussy featured a Mellotron (194.63.116.72 13:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC))
I added some Mellotron users; this might spin out of hand and become a second List of Moog users. On the other hand, Jarre testifies that some of his music would have sounded different if some keys on his Mellotron had not been broken... Vangelis used it a lot in the early 1970s (with Aphrodite's Child, his albums Earth and Apocalypse des Animaux), but seems to have gone off it afterwards. JFW | T@lk 10:17, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Nice article. Tempshill 02:25, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Yes, Kraftwerk used a Vako Orchestron, never a mellotron!
Perhaps this article should have links to http://www.mellotronics.com and http://www.mellotron.com the current manufacturers of mellotrons?
-- DAVID DAVIS
Virtual Mellotron info should be added.
Someone who knows more about this stuff should write at least a small paragraph describing software recreations of the Mellotron and giving external links to several of those product's web pages. That was the main reason I looked this up, because I know what they are - and I want one! But I can afford to buy or maintain the real thing.
Inclusion of information on modern manufactured products that attempt to copy the sound of the Mellotron is contrueable as a form of advertising and endorsement of those products. That kind of information does not belong belong in a library quality article of reference on the Mellotron. Accurate Mellotron information is hard to come by and this page was created and used by students, educational institutions, and historians and should not be used as a platform for software manufacturers.
Because of the specialized nature of the instrument, this page needs to stay true to the original subject in keeping with Wikipedia's policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.160.109.38 (talk) 07:46, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
I have just reverted changes made by feline1 (talk · contribs) which, while clearing out content not cited to any reliable sources, also removed some of my own attempts to clean up the article, including my citations to the Mellotron history as documented in Clavia's manuals. However, I've tagged the affected areas that I assume the revert was intended for, as I agree we really do need to start pruning out a lot of unreferenced, originally researched content. --Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:55, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
The sections of the article referred to by 'Feline' as 'unsourced' are backed up by both legal documentation and empirical research regarding the selling of Mellotron name in documents from 1991-1997 and trademark infringement warnings from 1999 onward which present the name and copyright as protected under new registration. Legal information is contained in 'Cease and Desist' e-mails or documents sent to would be exploiters. A Google search on 'Mellotron Legal' and 'Mellotron Name' will reveal some of this. Informaton also exists in transcribed form from websites listed on the article page. Another Mellotron book is being released soon that will also detail additional information.
'Feline' doesn't know what he doesn't know. 'Feline' already has a troublesome record with Wikipedia, and is not an objective party regarding Mellotron. 'Feline' is a software user (or seller) in the UK who seems to have vested interests in removing the mention of fraud regarding trademark infringment, as well as the cons (but not the pros) of software samples of the Mellotron. Both pros and cons of software sample history and 'name fraud' are necessarily mentioned in this article. Neutrality has been reviewed and balanced by past/current Mellotron users and software sample users. Feline is the only person who seems to have a problem with this. We also know that 'Feline' has never owned or used a real Mellotron for any credible length of time, and is too young and works too far outside of the music industry to be knowledgable about it's more arcane legal history. 'Feline' (unlike other contributors and reviewers of this article who use Mellotrons, software, were present or have insider knowledge of the legalities regarding Mellotron) is not a professional researcher. We formally request he stop his revisionism of this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.160.109.38 (talk) 18:37, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Nothing more need be said about this. His actions clearly speak for themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.160.109.38 (talk) 17:30, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Ritchie - who are you to tell them to 'knock it off?' You are in no position to decide what is original research and what reliable sources are with this particular subject. Feline - We've read your Wikipedia record. We've seen your web page. You use a digital keyboard so you are a software user. Software programs exist in digital keyboards. As for the total dick comment - obviously you've been called this before since these words are in your vocabulary. If you have to try to convince someone you're not a total dick, well..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.121.239.74 (talk) 13:14, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
No Feline, you are the one violating WP:3RR. This article has been consistent with the same information for years until you decided you personally didn't like it. Regardless of quality of sources, you keep attacking the same part of the article time and time again without paying attention to the rest of it that lacks inline sources. So you definitely have an agenda. You don't own an analog Mellotron, which is really what this article is about. The other contributors here do, so they are privy to more information than you are. So it appears there's an inherent and underlying bias between you and others including us. If you think the poor digital samples and the 1990's trademark infringement histories don't belong, then you really should also delete all reference to the praise and construed promotional use of digital samples too, but you don't do that. So perhaps you want to delete the section because you are a proponent, user or promoter of the poorly made digital samples cited in it, or perhaps you are violating the trademark name Mellotron somehow in your own music work and don't want to be sued. Either way, no one else has a problem with that section except you. Essentially you are the only one this article needs protecting from. The other contributors to this article are far more knowledgable about the subject and are more than capable of maintaining it without our involvment or yours. Whether the content is put back by us or someone else, the content should always remain there in some form because it's an important part of the history and people deserve to know about it. The alternative is an agreement to eliminate all reference to any digital samples (which maybe is what should happen), because this is an article on the Mellotron and it's history. Use of this article as a platform for modern commerce is inappropriate. Regardless, your revisionism stems from a pretended and selective ignorance of facts. That much is clear. Otherwise, you would highlight questionable text or correct any missing sources satisfactory enough to yourself. The truth is you have a motive. You personally don't want that information here. You've invested considerable effort to eliminate it under the guise of Wikipedia policies, but that's just an excuse you use to manipulate the situation to your advantage. So one of three realities must exist: Either you have a digital sample business, or you've violated the trademark name Mellotron somehow (you openly admit you dislike them), or you simply hate sections about authenticity ideas, trademarks, and standards, and have nothing better to do than to sit back and wait for an edit war because you like it. Ultimately it doesn't matter, your character and your actions speak louder than words, and they speak solely for themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.160.109.38 (talk) 05:11, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
The above insult seems to be your favourite word Feline. Your use of it says a lot about your character, who you are as a person. You are now making this all about you and having your way - which is a really selfish act on your part. It's not about you. It's about all of us here. It's about article accuracy - something you don't want because you'll not profit from that. You have a personal agenda Feline, to have information supressed. Because you don't have an original Mellotron and are a software use and/or promoter, you desire to suppress information that paints some digital samples in a questionable light. You desire a one-sided article expounding the pros of digital sample use, but not the cons. Otherwise, why bother? The only non-neutral person here is you. And you're proving it in your responses by attacking others who don't agree with you. That information about digital sample use & trademark infringement has been there for a long long time. It can already be verified by what sources exist presently. There were sources provided and you've suppressed them.
If all this information was so inaccurate, so off-base, and so untrue, don't you think other 'in the know' Mellotron people would have deleted it? But no one has, because they know that section is accurate. You are the only one who doesn't want it there. You have a personal agenda to see it supressed. If you didn't have a personal agenda, you wouldn't be so emotionally reactive about any of this. You would laugh it off. But you can't do that because you know it's true. Your real character is revealed by your actions. You can scream out all the 'unreferenced' dogma names you want. You can scream out all the drunken bottom-class names you want, but it doesn't change the facts. As others have pointed out here - you have the problem. You have a personal angle here and also a history of being blocked with other articles. As previously stated, your actions speak louder than words, and they speak for themselves.
This article took many people so many years to create. Finding information, sourcing information, checking it, re-checking it etc. It has been contributed to by people 'who were there' at the beginning of the Mellotrons' 50 year history all the way up until this present day. Mellotron owners & users, digital sample owners & users, literature and legal document holders, book writers, film-makers, historians etc. have all given their free time in adding to and providing something that can legally and reliably used by students or anyone else interested in obtaining all the facts.
So for a rogue digital software user who apparently has no love for the original Mellotron to chop-edit and supress sections where poor digital sample use and trademark infringement have historically occurred.....well that's going to give many people great pause.
Essentially, you are trying to play God with this article. You want to supress for it for your own needs. You should expect that many others who helped create this article through years of painful work are going to resist that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.160.109.38 (talk) 08:26, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
And he's back! Hellp User:Tv Media Network! How have you been? :) --feline1 (talk) 14:48, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
well, for goodness' sake, ritchie, try to keep some of the descriptive stuff while you're weeding. :-) I agree absolutely that this page is no place for the enormous list of bands who may or may not have used the real thing over the last fifty years; andy's "planet mellotron" site & the various other internet fansites are the place for that. I'd also agree that this is no place for the discussion of the various emulations; I'd leave in mention of the other electromechanical instruments (orchestron, chamberlin, birotron) as side-notes, but things like the memotron & the virtual versions deserve only noting as modern attempts to emulate the mellotron, otherwise we'd have to get into every sampler/rompler patch that's ever attempted this, along with all the 70s string machines that occasionally supplanted the mellotron on the questionable grounds of utility or reliability. fwiw, I have a working 400 & ten frames, & at the moment there's a crumar performer sitting on top of it which needs repairing. not far away is an elka rhapsody, ditto. but I digress. I wrote some of the stuff on the page about the reliability & about the nature of the sound; the first four paragraphs under "operation" are mostly my work, & were written before I understood the rules about citations.. it's difficult to provide citations & references for this area, & as an established owner/user, I wonder if I need to. there's a word later in that same paragraph ("inevitable"), & indeed some stuff around the overall balance of the description that I attempted to redress. leave me a note here if you have any thoughts. duncanrmi (talk)
http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/FAQ_-_Miscellaneous#What_is_a_Mellotron_and_have_I_heard_it_in_music_other_than_King_Crimson.27s.3F duncanrmi (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:21, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Very nice, but not convinced the Mellotron article requires his template? MartinSFSA (talk) 22:57, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
I've reassessed the article as C class. Most of the remaining content is now sourced, and I'm reasonably confident the remainder can be, when I've got time. By contrast, there's quite a bit missing about how the instrument works - things like lead versus accompaniment manuals, bank selection, controls. I can get most of that by citing Awde and / or Vail, but it would be nice to get a selection of different sources instead. Watch this space.... Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:16, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Ritchie - It's nice to see the sprawling list of bands removed from this article. Thank you for taking the time to remove them and re-do this article into something at least readable. The last edits however, were corrections: you have a spelling mistake with 'is storage' instead of 'in storage'. Also the mention of the Chamberlin is relevant as it was the Mellotron's main competitor. Regarding the Orchestron, and Birotron - Mark Vail's book was originally published in 1996 and is replete with errors about them because little information existed. He essentially re-printed old articles from Keyboard magazine which originally had some inaccuracies. His 2000 reprint carried those errors forward. Pea Hix is a reliable source regarding the Orchestron and other documentation exists showing that less than 100 were made - not 1000. Vail's book also says 100,000 Optigans were made. That is also factually incorrect. And in no way could a toy company like Mattel mass produce a wooden product in numbers as high as that. The numbers should read '1000 Optigans' and '100 Orchestrons' at best. Regarding the Birotron - there is extremely little documentation but it was the advent of the computer chip which ended support for it. Vail's book mentions that no press release was ever issued about that instrument - yet 1970's era newspaper articles on the internet disprove this. Your mention of Vail's mention of Keyboard magazine's mention of Wakeman's mention of 'teething problems' takes this way out of it's original context, which I why I had removed that section. Wakeman himself has 'disowned' that comment since. If you look at other book's aside from Nick Awde's book (which I have) and Mark Vail's book (which I have) you will see the corrections I made are valid. I suggest you read Frank Samagaios's 'Mellotron' book and Peter Forrest's A - Z of analogue synthesizers. They're not perfect books either, but they do have factually correct information supported by people connected to those original companies, which is better than any second hand, or third hand source who writes a book or article on it. Your approach for using sourced information is of course, valid and in keeping with what Wiki is for, but the information your sources cite is flawed in some aspects which is why I suggest you look at multiple sources for the truth, or at least leave it as 'citation needed'. You must also realize that some of the contributors here had, and still have first hand direct involvement with these instruments and can know things that are not yet published. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.160.109.38 (talk) 02:51, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
Richerman - yes you are right about 'verifiablity' but there's also the aspect of 'reasonableness'. You don't need a published book to tell you that the sky is blue do you? What I'm saying is some of what gets entered here falls neatly under that aspect as you read the whole article. The information is not secret, just more un-noticed as other subjects because we're talking about an arcane and esoteric area of musical instruments which was never well documented to begin with despite the best intentions of everyone involved. It's best to cut some slack here and leave a 'citation needed'.
Ritchie - I can't always necessarily 'cite what I write' because I just don't have the time to dig these up despite owning all the published books, videos, audio etc. But others who see it here can and will cite it for you. I can almost promise that. I can answer your questions: 'the standard controls on a Mk II are separate volume controls (for each side) a black pitch knob (in the center), mechanical switching buttons for track selection and mixing tracks in A/B configurations, and buttons for cycling each drum-spool of tapes which offers six stations. The right side is divided into lead sounds only, the left side is divided into two sections - rhythms (left) and fills (right). Keys also have a numbering system to be used with a songbook (provided with the machine) which tells you which keys to press to play certain standards of music. The Mk II is a revised version of the Mk I which was identical except that it had no violin sounds and featured mostly organ sounds instead. The standard mahogany Mk II's (and six black Mk IIs') have a tube amplification system with a very slight tonal hum (heard in a very famous song). The grey BBC sound effects consoles have transistor amplification and no-hum (more useful for recording sound effects). There's even a different electrical smell between the two machines'. So this description above is an example of our dilemma with this Wiki article: where would you find this published? Well there is no 'one' book that will give you what I just directly stated. There will be snippets of this information across several books, videos, websites, etc. but you would need some technical knowledge in how the machine works to recognize and put the pieces together to understand this (or access to the owners/tech manuals). I think if we truly care about having a great quality article, we'll have to trust in 'citations needed' and give it the room necessary for this to happen in. You've mentioned that you support this method. And thank you again for removing all the 'bands using Mellotron' (which was mostly untrue), and reference to contemporary digital emulators which are nothing more than indirect product placement. I commend you for your efforts so far. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.160.109.38 (talk) 14:33, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
"Dave Kean, an expert Mellotron repairer, recommends that older Mellotrons should not be immediately used after a period of inactivity, as the tapes can become magnetized in storage and destroy the recordings on them if played"
I don't understand the above sentence - what is meant by "the tapes can become magnetised and destroy the recordings on them if played"? I can understand if the tape head became magnetised that would destroy the recordings but the tapes themselves? If they became magnetised the recordings would be destroyed anyway - what difference would playing them make and what difference would it make if they were left for a while before being used? Also the section about the Moody Blues is rather confused. The section about Mike Pinder makes it sound as if they used the Mellotron from the beginning (1964) but The Moody Blues article says they didn't use it until 1967 after they reformed with Justin Hayward and John Lodge. Richerman (talk) 14:34, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
OK I understand that you deleted my post because I didn't put any references but it's just that I don't know how to do so. If you could please write that Steven Wilson, both in Porcupine Tree [there is even a song called Mellotron Scratch], in his latest albums as a solo artist and in collaborations like in Opeth's Damnation, uses mellotron (and if you can find a reference that he celebrate the 50 year anniversary playing a King Crimson and a Beatles tune) extensively I would really appreciate it. Here are some references: http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-and-other-stories-mw0002475916 http://memegenerator.net/instance/24291443 http://www.jambase.com/Articles/104081/Steven-Wilson-(Porcupine-Tree)-Third-Solo-Album-in-February He even said that he purchased Fripp's mellotron and would feature extensively on his next album: http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3199665/steven-wilson-drops-very-cool-bit-of-news-regarding-upcoming-solo-album/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.57.165.180 (talk)
The problem isn't really that something isn't unreferenced (if you don't add a reference, but another editor can easily find one, it's good form to do that), but rather that "Notable users" sections of articles tend to accumulate a list of everyone who's ever been vaguely associated with its subject. Therefore we require that good sources to show that someones use of the Mellotron is especially significant or prominent. I have found some good quality sources (such as Keyboard Magazine) that show that Steven Wilson has a significant affinity to the Mellotron, so that information can stay. As an alternative, a breakout article List of Mellotron users could be created. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 08:02, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
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I'm glad to see your work here. As per the above checklist, I do have some insights that I think will be useful in improving the article:
(definite article needed before "television personality"?)
Besides that, I think the article looks excellent. Ritchie333, please feel free to strike out any recommendation you think will not help in improving the article. All the best, --Seabuckthorn ♥ 22:46, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, Ritchie333, very much for your diligence, care and precision in writing such great articles. Promoting the article to GA status. --Seabuckthorn ♥ 23:10, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't think the article fully explains the how the mellotron works. Looking at this I would propose something like:
Under each key is a mechanism similar to a tape recorder, comprising a capstan that pulls an audio tape across a magnetic head. Once the mellotron is switched on the capstan is constantly turning, and when a key is pressed a pinch roller attached to the key pushes the tape against the capstan and a felt pad pushes it against the playback head. As long as the key remains depressed the tape is drawn over the head and the recorded sound is played, for a maximum time of eight seconds. As the tape plays it is folded up into a wooden compartment and, once the key is released, a spring pulls it back to its original position, ready to be played again.
Does that sound OK? Also, do all models use the three track tape described in the article I've referenced? Richerman (talk) 00:21, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
There have been several attempts to add "The Mellotron trademark was purchased in 1991 by David Kean of the Audities Foundation and is currently run by Markus Resch out of Stockholm, Sweden." (or variations of that) without any source. Certainly the sources I do have give the Bradley family the credit for the instruments and consider them to be the rightful owners, and though there is the Gordon Reid source, I have seen all sorts of problems in using old Sound on Sound articles on Hammond organ and elsewhere as they seem to be full of factual errors. Your thoughts, please. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:09, 27 April 2015 (UTC)