Mellotronists

Colin Crawford wrote:

> On 24 Mar 2007, at 03:42, charel196 wrote:
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>      Does anyone here happen to know what instrument was used to make the "bionic" sound
>      effect (na-na-na-na-na) on the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN tv series? Thanks-
>
> Just someone hitting an iron girder then put thru an Echoplex or similar I reckon......

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Greetings Colin and Gang,    One of most interesting SFX was the
"death-ray" used by the Martians in 1953 sci-fi classic "War Of  The Worlds."
So good the sound was, that Paramount used the effect 13 years later for
Star-Trek's photon torpedoes.

I believe that sound was created by hitting a steel guy-wire for a huge
vertical antenna. ....somewhere..... Was then post-processed thru some type of
early reverb or delay .    The Harry Chamberlin era......

Cheers, -- Jerry Korb (can only do the classic beer-belch,  Bwwwaaaa! )