Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

The Orchestron on eBay--100 pounds?!? That's the weight of a couple
Optigans. Must be the bulletproof road case. Those bigger monster
model Orchestrons--you'd think a little better fidelity would come
out of something like that. Filmstrip light aperature audio
reproduction--seems truly archaic with Talentmakers, Optigans and
Orchestrons even back 25-30 years ago, but we all can think of some
pretty good old black and white movies that had decent audio. It must
have been quite a feat to record big band orchestras when that was
the recording medium...before the lame wire recordings of the 40's
and the advent of (hooray!) tape.

Great Moodies song actually--sounds like a lost track from 1968 from
the In Search Of The Lost Chord era. Detailed history of this track
please! For an instant, I thought it might have been one of the
studio tracks on the Caught Live + Five double.

The first track was a gem too--the way it builds and utilises layers
of Mellotron variety. Detailed history on that one too, please.