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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: NAMM Report

From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-01-19

Chris Dale wrote:

 
Pitch increase from the motor controller (notcontrol panel) in the middle of Battle Of Glass Tears (1971)

It sounds daft!

Tension backed off pitch roller for detunedwobbly Brass sound in Talking Drum intro (1974)

That's not a Mellotron. That's a tube with weird kind of bag attachedto it that Fripp whirled about his head in the studio. Sid Smith's bookhas a photo of it.