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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] 35 Notes

From: lsf5275@...
Date: 2007-06-01

In a message dated 5/31/2007 8:37:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jonesalley@... writes:

I really wonder if the number was determined by a combination of; 1)the size
of the keyboard that Harry had for his prototype, 2)the number of tape heads
he had available, and 3)the range of whatever sound he used for his first
experiments.

Perhaps it was that when he listened back to the recordings of instruments played back, the higher notes just sounded too weird. I still believe that the 35 note range was the only useful one. Perhaps he could have gone a bit lower on some instruments and higher on others, but overall, the 35 we have now was a compromise. Even now, boys choir does not sound like anything of this earth in the higher registers. How far up could you go with flute? Or Down? 8 choir is already doubled in the right end. Obviously the Bradleys agreed.
 
Frank 



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