Mellotronists

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Berg" <caddyfam@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 8:09 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: Solo trons


> --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, jeffc@... wrote:
>>>
>>
>> not to pick nits, but kraftwerk's TEE is actually an orchestron,
> and
>> not a mellotron. see:
>> http://www.optigan.com/tidbits.html#6
>>
>> it's an easy one to mistake for a mellotron, and for years that's
>> what i thought it was also. another is popol vuh's "Aguirre". it
>> sounds like a mellotron choir, but it's some oddity called a
>> "choir organ" or something like that [or WAS it?]:
>>
>
>
>>Re:   Thanks for that one Jeff, could that mystery choir be a
> Roland 330 vocorder?
> Back in the radio days when Kraftwerk brought out their 2nd lp, Man
> Machine, we were playing "We Are The Robots" both on air, and in the
> Clubs and got to see them in N.Y. courtest of Capitol, and I
> remember seeing a 400 on stage, or so I thought. But who remembers
> the 70's?  Doug


Er, 'The Man Machine' was something like their 7th album, Doug... And while 
they used an Orchestron extensively, there's also some 'Tron on 
'Trans-Europe Express' - compare the two different string sounds. The 
'choir-organ' seems to've been an early European one-off attempt to use the 
Chamberlin/Mellotron idea, with infinite sustain. Also used by Amon Duul II.

Andy T.
M400 #1145