Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

Some quotes from the Orchestron group about Mellotrons...

“ Heavy and impossible to tour with “

“ Cant play fast on them...”

“ 8 second limit and the end of every tape is out of tune “

“ Coolest album ? Trans europé express or tales from topographic ocean ”

“ Mellotron – the poor mans Orchestron “

“ Takes forever to change tapes “

“ Relayer was yes best album – without a doubt  “



Den 2011-01-27 21.54, skrev "Tony" <atm655@verizon.net>:

 
 
   

For me, none!
Never wanted or owned one.
Haven't mentioned the "hicup" everytime the disc completed one revoloution and started another, but about like needed to lift before the 8 seconds of tape is about to end with Mellotrons.
Great idea except it didn't work.

Tony

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From:  Mike  Dickson <mailto:mike.dickson@gmail.com>  
 
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com  
 
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:20  PM
 
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] New  Video
 

   
 

It sounds great.

On 26/01/2011 23:58, fdoddy@aol.com  wrote:  

   
 

What's the point of an album entirely done in  mellotron?

fritz
 

 

 

 

 
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Sent:  Wed, Jan 26, 2011 5:38 pm
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On 26/01/2011 21:27, Tony wrote:
 

 
 
  That's where my Orchestron info and factory visits  came from.  
I  played his triple, he wasn't fond of it, to put it mildly and neither was  I.

What is the point of  playing a triple keyboard version of an instrument that sounds fundamentally  awful?