seriously....the sound was a combo of MK2 violins and sax (with maybe a dash of trumpet).
I don't believe the oboe tapes had been recorded yet when Tuesday Aft. was done. (didn't
they come out much later for the 400?)
You can go to mikepinder.com and post the question directly to him on the forums there
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "bob_vandiver" <bob_vandiver@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, my first post so please be gentle.
>
> A couple of years ago (before I knew about this resource and others) I tried to duplicate
> Tuesday Afternoon using the M-Tron and other instruments (don't ask). Work ground to
a
> stop when I tried to add the "oboe" sound. This was the Mellotron line that carried the
> melody of the song, the answer to Justin's singing.
>
> The problem was I could find no M-Tron sound that sounded remotely close to what I
hear
> on the record. The closest I could get was I think the sax patch, which makes some
sense
> because in headphones there actually is a sax sound in the left channel and the "oboe"
> arises from that general part of the stereo spread. Does anybody know what Mike Pinder
> actually did to get that oboe sound?
>
> I can say that the M-Tron oboe sounds rather poor fidelity. Mike's sound did not sound
> like the M-Tron does. It sounds like the tape was waundering off the center of the tape
> head with dulling of the sound over the length of the note. The Moody oboe does not do
> this and it has a much more percussive attack.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Vandiver
>