I wonder how similar both keyboards are to the Clavioline (of which
there are currently 2 on eBay). My guess is that they are all
somehow related.
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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley" <jonesalley@c...>
wrote:
> Fascinating bit of reading. I believe an ancient issue
of "Keyboard"
> magazine or one of its linear predecessors was my source for
the "Runaway"
> info, which I found no reason to doubt when I got my hands on my
own Solovox
> around 1980. Play that solo on the Solovox, and it is
indistinguishable.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernie Kornowicz" <kornowicz@c...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:54 AM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] [looking-for-answers] Re: Album Openers
(Was:
> Deadwing)
>
>
> > There seems to be some similarities:
> >
> > http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/solovox.html
> > http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/maxmusitron.html
> >
> >
> > --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley"
<jonesalley@c...>
> > wrote:
> >> "Musitron???????" That was a Hammond Solovox.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: marabus
> >> To: looking-for-answers@yahoogroups.com
> >> Cc: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:14 AM
> >> Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: [looking-for-answers] Re: Album
> > Openers (Was: Deadwing)
> >>
> >>
> >> I believe Max Crook's home built Musitron gets the gold star
on
> > Del Shannon's "Runaway"-early '61
> >> Pete
> >>
> >> http://www.delshannon.com/runaway.htm
> >> Carlos Baez wrote:
> >>
> >> According to the Henry Ford Museum research center: "The
first
> > Moog
> >> synthesizer was one of two prototypes built by Robert Moog
from
> >> July-September 1964, with additional modules added in 1964
and
> > 1965. One was
> >> taken to Toronto University in 1965, while one was kept by
the
> > inventor and
> >> his colleague, Herbert Deutsch. It was used in live public
> > performance for
> >> the first time in a concert at Town Hall in New York City on
> > September 25,
> >> 1965."
> >>
> >> I'd always heard that the Monkees were the first to use one
on
> > record as
> >> well, but given the above dates, it appears someone else
might
> > have actually
> >> preceded them.
> >>
> >> _________
> >> > Can you, Tom, or anyone else for that matter, cite an
> >> example of the Moog synthesizer being used on a pop record
> > earlier than
> >> Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. by the Monkees?
> >>
> >>
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