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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Sapce Oddity

From: Linda Dachtyl <lindaleed@...>
Date: 2003-06-19

> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:45:48 -0500
> From: "JS" <jonesalley@...>
> Subject: Fw:
>
> The wonderful thing about email is that you respond to it when you CAN, not
> when it forces you to, like a telephone. No apology is necessary.
>
> I hear a distinct glissando with a buzzy,sawtoothy sound that prefaces the FM7
> Mellotron chord at the entry into the "guitar solo" portion of the song, a
> timbre that sounds a lot like the C to B monophonic line where you describe
> the known stylophone part. Any help from anybody on this?
>
That is a stylophone. I always thought it was a bad eq on a sax;-)!
Really.

As much as I like Bowie, he was smart to later hire David Sanborn to play
sax for him.

My father-in-law owns one of these and it definitely is a stylophone there.

Linda