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agreed

> ….this is not the place to debate your anti-American, communist
> ignorance…….let it go…..
>
> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas C.
> Doncourt
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:14 PM
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Youtube Orchestron demos
>
>
>
> I think Palin could fit two as long as you want to bring politics onto
> this page
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>> I have a suggestion where Nancy Pelosi can put it!.....probably
>> won’t
>> make it sound any better though………..
>>
>> From:
>> newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>
>> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>]
>> On Behalf Of lsf5275@aol.com<mailto:lsf5275%40aol.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:31 PM
>> To:
>> newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>
>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Youtube Orchestron demos
>>
>>
>> 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%40yahoo.com><mailto:charel196@yahoo.com<mailto:charel196%40yahoo.com>>
>> writes:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --- In
>> newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
>> Chris Dale
>> <unobtainiumkeys@...<mailto:unobtainiumkeys@...<mailto:unobtainiumkeys@...%3cmailto:unobtainiumkeys@...>>>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Charles
>>> <charel196@...<mailto:charel196@...<mailto:charel196@...%3cmailto:charel196@...>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 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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