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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Speaking of the M4000

From: fdoddy@aol.com
Date: 2010-12-02

werd...I'm with you Bernie.

Most folks also give a natural negative connotation to words like limitation, commercial. pop.  Conversely, positive connotation is given to words like freedom, unique, analog.... blah blah blah.

Like you said, it is what it is.

....aaaand begin!


fritz




-----Original Message-----
From: tron400 <tron400@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 12:03 pm
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Speaking of the M4000, what's with this?

 


Mike, I think you and a few others misunderstand me. Frank Stickle's comment about not being able to drive them is closest to it if only for the absurdity. Pianos have limited range and only one voice. That's the way they're designed. I don't see that as a limitation. It is what it is.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/12/2010 13:20, tron400 wrote:
> >
> > If Mellotrons have limitations, everything has limitations. No one
> > ever mentions the limitations of a guitar or a piano, yet the article
> > mentions Mellotron limitations without saying what they are. What are
> > they?
> >
>
> 1. Tuning
> 2. Range
> 3. Voices
> 4. Recording quality
> 5. Timbre
> 6. White noise
> 7. Tape audio artefacts
> 8. Tape transport
> 9. Playing position
>
>
> Give me a shout if you want more.
>