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Subject: Re: The Word / OM

From: "thinkingalouduk" <owen@thinking-aloud.co.uk>
Date: 2008-07-15

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Daily <pocotron@...> wrote:
>
> Or are you talking about the 'tron in "Om"?  That mystifies me, too. 
> Maybe it's 3-violins with a bass organ.

(Coming in hours later as usual...)

I think that the deepest sound you're hearing on the E-B-E bits might be (shock horror) a
real Double Bass (bowed). There's a strong bow-sound ahead of the last but one occurrence.
... Although the 3 violins sound like they're half-speed ...

Moodies used real cellos and d-bass occasionally back then. Bass flute can be heard on
other recordings too.

O