Mellotronists

Hey Jerry and Telharmonium fans,

Amazon has a VHS video available for merely $79. I think it's the 
same as the 3 video clips here: http://magneticmusic.ws/mmvideo.htm

I recommend downloading the clips so you can adjust the QuickTime 
screen size. It's a nice documentary, but no clips or samples of the 
instrument.

One website I visited says that there was a keyboard (all were 36 
notes) that was one octave subdivided into 36 notes, a la John Cage.

Bernie


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Korb <jkorb@i...> wrote:
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> Bernie Kornowicz wrote:
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> > Now, where the heck am I gonna put it?
> >
> > http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%
> > 20Pages/Ballora/INART55/telharmonium.html
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> Please read the following excerpt from Telharmonium history :
> 
> "Meanwhile, with the increased concert broadcasts,
> technical problems began to surface. One was a steady
> downward drift in the instrument's tuning. Another was
> uneven volume, resulting in a sudden lowering of volume
> when chords were played. There was also a cracking sound
> that resulted from staccato notes. "
> 
> Doesn't this sound familiar  ??  Like  Mike Pinder's objections
> during the MK-II days of VFO....... History repeats itself......
> 
> -- JK --
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