It could be but here are some better examples:
Half speed Brass on Have You Heard followed by MK II motor noise at the album end (1969)
Pitch increase from the motor controller (not control panel) in the middle of Battle Of Glass Tears (1971)
Tension backed off pitch roller for detuned wobbly Brass sound in Talking Drum intro (1974)
High Speed on motor controller in "Ritual" (1973)
Slowing a Chamberlin flywheel for slide guitar sounds (1989)
or how about just playing a chord with one finger lighter than the rest so the treble response is weaker as a harmonic?
Where is this type of experimentation with a Mellotron in a commercially released recording in the last 20 years?
Tell me - I'd like to hear it. But chances are I won't because it's largely samples being used.
And since this experimentaton is absent, then perhaps the digital trons are not made with doing this in mind. Perhaps they're manufactured with the idea of playing pads only.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:09 PM,
<lsf5275@aol.com> wrote:
So If I use my Mellotron as a giant paper weight I'm, "adventurous?" Or suppose someone were to push their Mellotron beyond the top step of the second flight leading up to their apartment and it took out that annoying Mrs. Bainbridge who lives across the hall and was on her way home from shopping. Would that be "adventurous?"
I define 'adventurous use' as pushing a tape based instrument beyond what it's expected use might be, rather than just using it as a string pad - which is what you mostly get in the music of the last 20 years.