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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] French Horn / Russian Choir
From: kenmerb@...
Date: 2002-11-21
In a message dated 11/21/02 10:18:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, TRONBROS writes:
There are no dropouts on the masters and for three dropouts to occur on the French Horn at 42 foot distance from each other during the recording process is an amazing coincidence.
> It would have to be the most precise bit of bad luck in the history of bad luck
Ditto on my end. I can't figure out why the three different French horn notes are garbled, but both adjacent tracks on all three notes are problem free. What are the odds of this? It boggles the mind.
OK, time to move on to other things. I've done my job by reporting this.
After my last e-mail, I turned on the radio and "Wonderwall" by Oasis was just beginning, complete with ∗in your face∗ cellos (those tapes are some of your handiwork, right Martin?) Anyway, I took this as some kind of sign, but I wasn't sure of ∗what∗. Then, as the last note of the song played, you could distinctly hear the Mellotron stall. Very obvious. A real LOL moment for me. I'm sure I've heard this before, but I never really paid attention. Kind of put things in perspective concerning the Russian Choir and French Horn sounds.
Ken M