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Subject: [Mellotronists] Sad Strings

From: tron@...
Date: 2003-09-03

> It's gotten awfully quiet since the blow-up last week. Is everyone
> scared to post or something?

I think people are too busy buning Frank's book.

> Martin tells me that Dickson was so depressed he moved south
> across the border, realizing he couldn't face another Scottish winter
> because of his emotional state.

Pure fantasy. Why do you think we invented whisky? (Arguably, to make us
forget about the neighbours, I suppose)

> As far as I'm concerned it's a "must have" along with the Russian
> choir.

I think it's a must have for frame #6. I'm set on the GC3 brass (for all
your Tangerine Dreanm, Hours Of E-Minor needs), Boys Choir (for my
planned recording, 'Have A Castrati Christmas') so the #3 spot is open.
I ∗was∗ thinking about French Horns but the Strings Of Suffering are
likely to edge them out.

> Seriously though, this is a fabulous voice that I can't wait to have in
> the new set the lads and I are in the middle of designing. Is anyone
> else as interested in this new voice as I am -- or am I alone in the
> vast wasteland of common mellotron sounds?

You're alone, but for entirely different reasons.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/