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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Mellotron piano

From: Ken Leonard <ken@...>
Date: 2004-07-08

At 05:39 AM 7/8/2004, Mattias Olsson wrote:
>C´mon don´t badmouth the piano...I have used it a fair deal since I got it
>four years ago.
>
>A really spooky sound and of course if you add a bit of pitchbending you
>can get very Dali-esque
>effects...

The reason I purchased the piano sound was hearing it on Jerry Korb's Mark
I (that machine's a killer). I also got the "smooth organ" (which in no
way is any reference to any one of Martin's body parts) and the rock
guitar. Hence the "dreary set".

Had I known the sounds better, I might have gone for the lower 1-2 octaves
of the rock guitar and the lower 1-2 octaves of the oboe as a set to free
up a sound selection for something else. Each of those sounds in the upper
octave become somewhat grotesque to my ears, but in the lower registers
they're fine. I wish the oboe was recorded an octave lower (if that's
possible in the range of the oboe).

...kl...
M400 #805 - needs more octaves
M400 #1037 - needs more working keys

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