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Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic WOMAD 2010 Taranaki

From: "Pomeroy RH Ranch" <punchbowl4@earthlink.net>
Date: 2010-03-16

 

 

Can I get one with MIDI-actuated solenoidhammers??

 

I wantto invent the contra bass hammered dulcimer.... really.

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo. com>
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 11:29 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic WOMAD 2010 Taranaki

 

Hi Mark-

   Excellent point you brought up.  What can we do with keyboards now to produce truely original sounds?

   I remember when synthesizers were supposed to be able to be the "new orchestras".  Tomita made a noble try, but just as quickly flew into space.  Carlos made her own excellent mark (as did others), but kept a narrow style focus.

   Does David Byrne present a new direction in playing man-made objects from the keys?  Or, is it just another musique concrete?  Maybe the sounds of nature could be played from the keys in a musical sense.

   We play what we enjoy.  But, like movies or TV programming, there is a lot of imitation in the process.

 

   Can someone please invent a new mechanical keyboard so it can be imitated?

 

   -Bruce Daily



--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Mark Pring <markpringnz@ yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic WOMAD 2010 Taranaki
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:16 PM

 

Just back from a 3 day music festival at Taranaki. Babylon Circus, Dub Colossus and the Skaltalites were the stand out "modern" acts, Amal Murkus,  Gochag Askarov and Kamel el Haraachi the stand out "traditional"  players.  No mellotrons alas. I was interested to see that Nords and Korgs dominated the keyboards used especially the Korg CX3 and X50.. The sounds used were mainly electric pianos, Rhodes and Wurlitzer and the Hammond B3. I suppose not many people will tour with the orginal instruments now. Odd that most of the keyboards seem to be designed mainly to emulate sounds from 50-70 years ago. I can't think of any really new keyboard sounds produced over the last 20 years. As the original instruments age, appreciate in value and crumble to dust I suppose emulations will be all that we are left with.

 

Mark