Mark, no need to apologize for defending your opinion (I've yet to apologize for being the instigator with my Memotron comment ![\">:)\"](\"https://ec.yimg.com/ec?url=http%3A%2F%2Fus.i1.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fi%2Fmesg%2Ftsmileys2%2F16.gif&t=1572497290&sig=ZEEadXx_l8zJ0YP1xTfa.g--~E\")
). As you can see, we all have opinions here and just because we're all Mellotron lovers, it doesn't mean we have to have the same ones.
Bernie
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Wallis" <markstuartwallis@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin and All.
>
> Sorry to have lowered the tone somewhat, I feel a bit like a red-faced
> out-of-breath schoolboy explaining himself in the headmaster's office after
> a playground scrap..
>
> Of course. I suppose I hadn't made it clear that I DO regard the genuine
> article as so much more than a sample playback machine. I'm obsessed with
> the thing, she bewitches the majority of people who hear or play her and I
> take every opportunity to celebrate, promote and indeed mythologise the
> Mellotron. My defence of software and hardware emulations was based on my
> belief that such things help the cause, "engendering respect for the
> original achievement and appreciation of the new tape-replay machines.." and
> generally making people want to buy real LIVE 'singing fridges'.
>
> Anyway, what about the Villa?∗ ;-)
>
> Love and Scones,
>
> Mark.
>
> ∗ n.b. A traditional Tamworthian method of attempting to change the subject
> by referring suddenly to the notoriously lame Aston Villa F.C. ..
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: tronbros@...
> >To: don@..., markstuartwallis@...
> >CC: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] The Clone Wars (was Memotron etc..)
> >Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:01:07 EDT
> >
> >The mellotron does things! I'm not about to describe in detail but it
> >does
> >things that no sampler has ever done. Unless the person programming
> >understands that the mellotron does things then no sampler, however
> >sophisticated will
> >ever sound like a mellotron. Memotron, Mtron, Akai, Trubshaw 30 or the
> >Grosvenor. It doesn't matter. The mellotron does things and modelling
> >that will
> >always be tricky. It's not just a question of a seemingly familiar
> >timbre...........................it's SO much more.
> >
> >M
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