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Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain the sound of the M300 violins

From: "John Wright" <john.wright@consona.com>
Date: 2009-02-26

This thread had me curious.  I'm not very familiar with the M300 sound so I listened at the Mike Dickson site.  What are some examples of songs/bands that use M300 strings?  I'm guessing the traditional Prog bands didn't use.
 
Thanks,
John

From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Pring
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:19 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain the sound of the M300 violins

Yes, but the sound I want has proved to be elusive, I think I might need an M300 to get it and my wife most certainly won't let me go there.  I haven't heard it from an M400, Mark II  or M4000 to my knowledge. In some ways I think it might be better to have it as unattainable goal, the holy grail of mellotron sounds for me. In any case I have grown very fond of the Mark II strings on the old tape set.

Mark

--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo. com> wrote:
From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo. com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain the sound of the M300 violins
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 9:15 AM

Two 1968 violins will do that to you.  New tape set, Mark?
-Bruce D.


--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Mark Pring <markpringnz@ yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain the sound of the M300 violins
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 9:16 PM


" I was reminded of something- an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever."