I heard about this tron in 1992 for the first time when Johan from Änglagård was searching for a Mellotron-. He had heard that there was one in a studio in Roslagen and started calling every studio in roslagen...He called studio largen and he found Roger Skogh who had helped Gaby to record the bees....
He and Johan started talking and we ended up recording two albums there...but still no signs of the bee tron...
In June I was showing my new tron sounds to some people and one of the girls said..." We have a tron at my school but it is quite useless...it only has bees in it...."
I made some phonecalls...
// Mattias
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Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: #1517 has a new buzzy friend...#563
"Mattias" <Mattias.olsson5@c...> wrote:
> ...the interesting thing with it are the sounds...The previous owner
actress/composer Gaby Stenberg traveled around the swedish country
side and recorded bees and bumblebees buzzing different notes and put
them on Mellotron frames.
Great! I remember reading about this in a Swedish magazine (Hemmets
veckotidning or Allers) back in the late 70's or early 80's. I've been
searching my grand mother's attic to find that issue for ages, but no
luck so far.
At one point I even thought I'd dreamt up the whole thing with the old
lady, the 'tron, and the bees, but now I know it's true.
-joachim