Mellotronists

> From: "Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock" <klaus@...>
   > Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:44:40 -0000
   > 
   > In a way I can understand that the owner of a real Tron nowadays
   > dislikes or even hates digital MELLOTRON samples, the MEMOTRON
   > and the M-Tron as the MELLOTRON always gave its owner a sort of
   > 'noblesse'.

Ahh, class struggle... yes, this is exactly what I meant by Marxism
applied to musical instruments.

If you make a weird copy of a respected and cherished musical
instrument, appropriating the name, the look and even recording the
sounds of the instrument, and you don't get instant recognition and
reward, sure, you can always blame it on elitism.

   > Now in 2006 technology has improved considerably, enabling sounds
   > and possibilities no one would have dreamed of forty years ago.
   > So why not use it?

Yes, I agree completely; technology enables sounds and possiblities no
one would have dreamed of forty years ago.

So what do you do with that amazing technology?  I know, I know... use
it to play back a recording of an instrument that's forty years old.

And what were the musical instrument makers doing with their older
technology forty years ago?  That's right, enabling new sounds and
possiblities.  

Is anybody not catching the irony here?

If modern day musical instrument makers had any balls they really
would enable new sounds and possibilities.  

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don@...
http://www.till.com