This guy: http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/aphex/113/ offers a limited set of mellotron samples, at least since 1999 (first google for "mellotron copyright"). these guys: http://www.mellotron.com/cdlist.htm sell a sample CD for 199. They don't mention anywhere on that page that they own the mellotron sounds or that they're making the disk under special license. > > I wonder what the legal situation is regarding making soundfonts of these > > recorded sounds...anyone know? > > Not sure -- they may be copyrighted sounds.