Mellotronists

Rick Blechta wrote:
> 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

Very impressive.  Both the restoration project and the resulting sounds.
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Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
Systems Theory internet music project links:
soundclick <www.soundclick.com/systemstheory>
garageband <http://www.garageband.com/artist/systemstheory>
"Soundtracks For Imaginary Movies" CD released Dec 2004
"Codetalkers" CD coming Spring 2006
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