To me it sounds exactly like a grainy old black and white (or sepia, I guess) picture looks. Old grainy pictures are sort of creepy... So is the mellotron, but in the absolute best way possible. I love creepy things, though. That's why it has worked so well in Goblin and Morte Macabre, etc.
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pring <markpringnz@...> wrote:
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> Just had this comment posted on my youtube site regarding a short piece posted there:
> "mellotron is a dark creepy instrument. sounds like dead bodies are about to pop out the floor"
> A good description of the piece, but a bit hard on the tron although I can't think of any really happy cheerful mellotron music offhand.
> Mark
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