[sdiy] another synth id? Synth used on certains Wings songs

[anthony]

When I was listening I was thinking to myself, "this is really more how 
Moogs sound than EMS..." And of course Mellotrons are easy to pick out. I've 
always wanted one of those. I've thought of ways to sort of do it over the 
years, using tape loops and several old-school answering machines, but the 
ideas never went much past the thought phase.

Then there's the magnetic tape cello that some performers (one was either 
Patti Smith or Patty Smyth - I think the former & Tim Kaiser probably did - 
you should see his website: www.timkaiser.org...) have used and I can't 
figure out why I haven't made one of THESE: a stick to stand up like a cello 
or basso with a tape playback head on it and using different bows strung up 
with prerecorded sounds of any nature. You could really go wild with that 
and use 2 or 3 heads. The bow could have multiple strands of tape and you 
could select which one by rotating it. You could angle extra heads so that 2 
tapes could be played at once even.

> Wings were big Moog and Mellotron users, EMS were not melodic or
> cotrollable for them.
>
> On 1/8/08, anthony <aankrom at bluemarble.net> wrote:
>>
>> I was listening to my Wing's Greatest Hits album last night and noted 
>> some
>> interesting synth sounds there too. Now I know that at least some of 
>> those
>> tracks were recorded at Abbey Road at the same time that Pink Floyd's 
>> Dark
>> Side of the Moon was recorded. So it is conceivable that Wings used the 
>> same
>> EMS Synthi AKS and other EMS synths at Abbey Road that Pink Floyd. I mean 
>> I
>> don't think they only belonged to Pink Floyd. I think it's funny the 
>> quote
>> (on DSOTM), "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time." was Paul
>> McCartney's voice. They said Linda was there too, I wonder if her voice 
>> is
>> the woman saying, "That geezer was cruisin' for a bruisin'."
>>
>> Cheers,
>> aa
>>
>>
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