Mellotrons are capable of sounding incredibly creepy and incredibly beautiful... often at the same time. I think that is why people are continually fascinated by them. That and the fact that they are capable of expressing great emotion as you can see by the following photo.
In a message dated 3/23/2010 2:31:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, got_a_guitar@yahoo.com writes:
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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