Mellotronists

On Dec 11, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:

> Thought some of you might be interested in this.  These things were 
> made about 1940 and are more rare than a tron.  Anyway, check out this 
> restoration project that somebody just documented:
> http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/Nova/intro.htm
>
> Be sure to listen to the sound samples at the end.  Amazing!  This 
> thing was way ahead of its time!
>
> -jim/m400#680 (...but no novachord)

Unless they dumped it, the Electronic Music Studio at McGill University 
in Montreal has one of these beasties -- and it works. Since I was 
always up there anyway (It was 1972 and they had a HUGE Moog!), we 
would fire it up on occasion and make up weird 1950s Sci-Fi movie 
soundtrack improvisations. It IS quite the machine, but having looked 
inside, I would hate to have to fix one of these things!

Now if you think a B3 is heavy...

Rick