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> I have a suggestion where Nancy Pelosi can put it!.....probably won’t
> make it sound any better though………..
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> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lsf5275@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:31 PM
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Youtube Orchestron demos
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> It looks and sounds like an amazing piece of shit, doesn't it? I can't
> imagine Pat Moraz could have ever been remotely thrilled with it, even
> though he had a really jazzy one. The more I see and hear them the less I
> want one. In fact, I sooo don't want one at this point, I really want
> Nancy Pelosi to have one. And I want it to sound just like Pea Hicks'.
>
> In a message dated 2/1/2011 6:19:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> charel196@yahoo.com<mailto:charel196@yahoo.com> writes:
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> In the Pea Hicks video when he's demo'ing the Orchestron, the violins disc
> sounds a lot like they sampled Mellotron violins too me. I thought I read
> long ago that Vako used a Mellotron to make some of the discs.
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> --- In
> newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@...<mailto:unobtainiumkeys@...>> wrote:
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>> Orchestrons can made to sound really good (different than a Mellotron)
>> by
>> using what you describe below.
>>
>> Vako never had the budget for the laser reader and it was nothing bnut
>> marketing. I have stickers on my that say it's read by lasers but it's
>> nonsense.
>>
>> There were suppsedly some glass test discs made but those broke easy
>> and
>> they stuck to the Optigan format.
>> All of the discs stacked in one system would have been a good idea
>> too!!
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>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Charles
>> <charel196@...<mailto:charel196@...>> wrote:
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>> > After watching several Youtube videos of Orchestron playing (like Pea
>> > Hicks' recent posting) I am amazed no one ever seems to use a volume
>> pedal
>> > on the thing and a good long delay/reverb to get more realistic swells
>> & cut
>> > offs & smoothing over the loop glitches. I think those things might
>> sound
>> > good if properly played with a pedal & run thru some noise filtering.
>> > I wonder if Vako had had the budget to use higher quality technology
>> (like
>> > a laser for reading the discs, better motors and audio circuitry, and
>> > thicker and more rigid records instead of the flimsy Optigan discs)
>> what the
>> > result might have been? An Orchestron could have been built with all
>> the
>> > sound/optical records placed stacked in a seperate cabinet never
>> having to
>> > be touched and accessed remotely by a master control keyboard.
>> >
>> >
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