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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?

From: fdoddy@aol.com
Date: 2008-09-28

Everything is out of tune...thank the lord!


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 6:45 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?

Being told that Mike Pinder was influenced by Mantovani ranks just behind Mike Dixon telling me that Sandy Denny sang out of tune, in a list  of things I wish I didn't know.

I can no longer listen to Sandy Denny and I suspect the Moody Blues are about to suffer the same fate.

Mark


--- On Sun, 9/28/08, tomdcour <tomdcour@amnh. org> wrote:
From: tomdcour <tomdcour@amnh. org>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 9:13 AM

Recently ,in an interview, Mike Pinder expressed that Mantovani had been an influence on his
mellotron work. Vaguely remembering some haunting strains of "Love is a Many Splendored
Thing" I went on Google to find out more. The first site I visited had a clip of the music that
Nurse Ratchet played to calm down the patients in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". This
put me in a bad frame of mind to be open to Mr. Mantovani. Indeed I started to suspect that
he was responsible for the Musak I had to listen to in the 60's and 70's while my mom was
shopping in the lingerie department. Bad associations! Then I began to read about some of
his unique studio methods. "Cascading Strings"!! Listening back to the clip, I was no longer
sure if I was hearing an orchestra drenched in a lot of reverb or the string section doing
something weird. I am wondering if ,perhaps, he had a rank of violins playing the melody and
another picking it up at a lower volume followed by yet another and another- simulating
reverb. The effect, if you can bear to listen to it, is very interesting. Anyone know anything
more about cascading strings or Mr. Mantovani?