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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT: Gloria Patri

From: "Tony" <atm655@verizon.net>
Date: 2011-01-11

I worked on quite a few of them during that time period.
As usual when properly maintained/tuned, they were fun to play.
About as portable as a Rhodes too, IE not very.
Me, I got stuck with a Gleeman, a high priced door stop, for sale too.
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Brumm
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:35 PM
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] OT: Gloria Patri

 

I used to have a Freeman String Synth….I haven’t seen one since the 70’s or early 80’s….quite heavy as I recall……..

Gary

From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Dickson
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:00 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] OT: Gloria Patri

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6MdBEMdVg

From the album 'Basilica' - www.mikedickson.org.uk/basilica

I suppose this is how Thomas Tallis might have sounded if he had access to an Eminent, and Elka Rhapsody, a Korg PE2000 and a Freeman String Symphonizer. 

I really love this piece - it has a really out-of-sorts harmony near the beginning and never lets up from that angular beginning. The bass works as a counterpoint to the main melody (as opposed to just being an accompaniment) and the tenor and alto lines act almost like a call-and-response. 

He got a lot of mileage out of four voices, our Tommy did.

-- 
Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
  
Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ 
Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson                  
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Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson   
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