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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Don Tillman <don@...> wrote:
>
> > From: "charel196" <charel196@...>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:31:09 -0000
> >
> > --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Don Tillman <don@> wrote:
> > >
> > > With some imagination, creativity, design and engineering, there a lot
> > > you can do...
> >
> > Care to elaborate? Like what...maybe a dat tape mellotron? Or
> > using 24 track heads?:) Or VHS tape?
>
> None of those are really practical. (Trying to imagine the VHS
> mechanism respond to playing a note is absolutely hilarious!)
well Don I was referring to the actual tape, not the mechanism....but really wasn't too
serious anyway;)
>
> > Where there's any mechanical process involved with myriad
> > adjustments there's always gonna be some problems down the
> > road...
>
> So all musical instruments involving a mechanical proces are doomed to
> failure? Tell that to Steinway.
Don-you're putting words in my mouth....I never said "failure" but "problems"....yes even
Steinways go outta tune & piano wires break (however rarely)
In defense of my love of trons, in the 25 years I owned my 400 I only probably had 3 tape
breaks and one of the large blue capacitors on the motor card blow...but I had an Anvil
ATA case and was usually on one end of it when it was moved.
And calling the Memotron a Casio is a bit of a stretch...it's exactly what it set out to be- a
digital clone of a tron for those who would like to tour with the original sounds and
something a bit more reliable( and more readlily accessible than a sampler) and still have
something slightly resembling the original ala Korg's C/BX-3s or the other Hammond
clones. I imagine the Memotron is a bit less heavy to transport as well;)