Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

Jeff,
Thank you for the info.
Pete

jeffc@... wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, pete wrote:
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>> Does anyone know if they use a Mellotron?I was listening to a few cuts
>> off the web today and their flute sounded Mellotronic.
>> Pete
>>
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>
> it's definitely samples.
> chuck van zyl plays them.
>
> chuck is the host of the long-running "star's end" space
> music radio program here in philly, and puts on the series
> of concerts known as "the gatherings" with help from his
> partner in MIOT, art cohen, and jeff towne from "echoes".
>
> i think it's the pinder cdrom he uses; not sure what sampler
> it is that he puts them in though. might be an emu.
>
> it was for one of chuck's "gatherings" concerts that both
> i and jimmy moore loaned RMI [radio massacre international]
> a pair of m400s in, i think, may of 2004... yup:
> http://thegatherings.org/51gather.html
> [i also loaned duncam my ems synthi-aks for the show]
>
> a couple years ago [december 2004] chuck had me put on
> a "mellotron workshop" here in philly, and with TONS of
> invaluable help from lots of generous members of this
> mailing list [professor jerry, ken leonard, jimmy moore,
> gino wong, brad shuman] we covered more ground tron-wise
> than i think the audience could digest [like a thanksgiving
> dinner of tron information? ...to analogize it]. thanks
> again to all of you who helped out...
>
> see:
> http://thegatherings.org/workshop1204.html
>
> i have seen chuck a few times in the past couple months
> and he has mentioned that he will be wanting me to provide
> a mellotron [or two] for some shows in the 2007 series.
> i'll make sure the list is aware of anything that comes
> up... jeff
>