Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

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> On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 06:10 pm, Linda Dachtyl wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> As much as I like Bowie, he was smart to later hire David Sanborn to
>> play
>> sax for him.
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>> My father-in-law owns one of these and it definitely is a stylophone
>> there.
>>
>> Linda
>>
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> A Stylophone 350S, I reckon!!
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> Also to be heard on the Sundae Club track "Now I Know Your Silence",
> the relevant portion of which can be heard on
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> http://www.s-club.co.uk
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> Go to the audio downloads page and click on the track name. also
> features a Suzuki Omnichord and a Streetly M400!!
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> CfN!!
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> C
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