Mellotronists

So my Orchestron search has come to fruition (fingers crossed) and I should have it in 
about a month, and I got to thinking about the sound discs for optical instruments.  I 
know a lot of people on this site may kind of poo poo these instruments as cheap, 
crappy imitations of the Mellotron and Chamberlin, but, nonetheless, they are close 
relatives in a very small family, so its worth a little discussion.  Here's my thought:  If 
you look at the available sounds for the Mellotron and Chamberlin, there's really an 
adequate collection of tape sets available.  To me it seems that they got to the point 
where they had made every recording that made sense, and even crossed over into 
the sort of ridiculous (for instance, I seem to remember that I can buy a tape set for 
my Mellotron of Jack Bruce's voice).  When you look at the Orchestron, however, the 
offerings are very limited (eight discs).  They cover the basics, but nothing complex, 
and they don't have things like "3 violins" vs. "violin" like the mellotron, where you can 
really get a diverse and specific group of sounds.  Checking out the optigan website, I 
found that, with the exception of a saxaphone disc, a choir disc, and a ridiculous 
sounding marimba disc, everything is organ organ organ.  I personally feel that the 
chord accompaniments on the optigan (I don't have one, but I was thinking of getting 
one, and listened to a bunch of sound files) are almost completely unusable unless 
you are making a very specific kind of lo-fi, ironic, post-modern kind of music--
essentially, unusable as an actual musical instrument, only as a gimmick.  It seems as 
though a solid combo organ could really take the place of an optigan in almost any 
situation.  SO, I got to thinking, here is this technology, and, at least in the case of the 
optigan, here are these plentifully available, cheap "analog sampling instruments", 
which have a cool character to the sound (I know everyone on this board can 
appreciate that, otherwise we'd all just have Korg Tritons, or whatever they're called), 
and why wouldn't someone go out and get session musicians and make discs that 
were actually usable?  Forget the chord button accompaniment stuff--why not record 
an actual symphony, brass section, choir, etc. and make a disc of those sounds for the 
optigan keyboard?  It has to be possible to still make these discs somehow, and, at 
least in my humble opinion, there's a market for them.  I mean, you can't tell me that 
if you could play samples of cool sounds on the optigan, that there aren't a lot of 
people into vintage keyboards that wouldn't shell out their 200 bucks for an optigan 
and start using those sounds.  Has anyone looked into this, or know anyone who has?  
Any thoughts on this?

Max