The source for information, new sounds, and replacement parts for Mellotrons and Chamberlins.

Website gives the history of the Optigan optical organ instrument created and manufactured in the late 1960s and 1970s.

A page dedicated to Mellotron samples for soundcard and sampler users.

Streetly Electronics: the original Mellotron makers. Models MARK l MARK ll FX Console 300 400/400SM 400 FX 4 - Track Mark V Novatron 400SM Novatron Mark 5 T 550 The Mellotron Story Sales Mellotron Archives UK, run by John Bradley (son of Les, managing director of Streetley Electronics - the original manufacturer) and Martin Smith, Mellotron nut and all round good egg, are the only people outside ...

The 'Optigan' and 'Orchestron'(1971) The Optigan Corporations 'Optigan' The Optigan was a novelty instrument built and marketed by the Optigam Corporation (a subsidiary of Mattel) in Compton, USA in the early 1970's. The unusual feature of the Optigan was its method of sound synthesis; the Optigan optically read graphic representations of waveforms from a series of 12 celluloid LP sized discs, ...