The Mellotron Group

No, they sit on me.

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
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> Bad Ass! Have you ever sat on them?
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> In a message dated 1/22/2011 3:22:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> tron400@... writes:
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> I have Harley Davidson eyeglass frames. They're really  loud! Why? Are they 
> Orange?
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> Bernie
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> --- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ,  lsf5275@ wrote:
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> > I hear Harley Davidson is going to make a  bicycle with speakers on it 
> that 
> > play back the sounds of the big  V-Twin when you pedal it around. It will 
> > have the Harley Davidson  Logo on it and since it still sounds just like 
> the 
> > big bike it must  be a motorcycle.
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> > In a message dated 1/22/2011  1:44:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
> > hessel@ writes:
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> > It seems to me that, for any device  claiming to have authentic MELLOTRON 
> > sounds onboard, capturing the  MELLOTRON medium (tape! ) and capturing 
> the 
> > characteristic replay  mechanism is very important and indeed what many 
> > buyers would expect  to hear from this device
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> > Op 22 jan. 2011 om 18:18 heeft "Charles" <_charel196@_  
> > (mailto:charel196@) > het volgende geschreven:
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> > not a valid comparison...a guitar  relies on the wood and strings for 
> > sound. The Mellotron doesn't rely  on it's cabinet. Does the plexiglass 
> tron 
> > sound different from the  wooden ones?
> > The M4000D is a DIGITAL MELLOTRON....not a tape playback  Mellotron...but 
> > is entitled to the name nonetheless IMO since it is  an offspring of the 
> line 
> > of instruments. As far as tuning &  denoising etc. ruining or changing 
> the 
> > sound....aren't these the very  things people have bitched about for 
> > decades. Now someone fixes them  and you bitch about that! (shakes 
> head....walking 
> >  away....smiling)
> > Markus could offer non tuned/non-denoised versions of  the sounds as an 
> > option.And if you can detect the missing bits of  analog tape sound in 
> the 
> > digital version you must have super  hearing.
> > Yeah...the Classic Keys sounds aren't good. The E4K/Pinder CD  sounds as 
> > accurate as I need. I even have samples from my old 400 in  it (hissy & 
> out of 
> > tune) every note sampled full length, non  looped.
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> > --- In __newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) _  
> > (mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) )  , lsf5275@ wrote:
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> > > Charles,
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> >  > Suppose you make a wooden thing with a neck and buttons on it instead 
> of  
> > > strings. All of the sounds are digitized and you press buttons  to get 
> > the 
> > > sounds. Is it a Guitar? It looks like a  guitar, but is it a guitar? 
> No. 
> > A 
> > > Mellotron or  Chamberlin were TAPE playback machines. Just because you 
> > make  
> > > something that kinda looks like one and plays digital  representations 
> of 
> > the 
> > > original tape samples doesn't  make them one.
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> >  > In a message dated 1/22/2011 8:48:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
> >  > charel196@ writes:
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> > > I just don't get all this "it's not a Mellotron" talk....the  digital 
> > unit 
> > > is a logical progression from tape replay  and Ill bet Harry Chamberlin 
> > would 
> > > have moved into this  area if he were alive now. The whole point was 
> > > playing  instrument sounds on a keyboard, not the tape technology 
> (which 
> > was  the 
> > > only method available) 
> > > If all sounds are from  original tapes and only last 8 seconds and are 
> > the 
> > > best  digital representations that can be done, personally to me it's a 
> > new  
> > > Mellotron.It's the offspring of the tape machine. So what that  it 
> > doesn't 
> > > use Chamberlin heads etc. With EQ'ing and  processing I imagine you can 
> > get 
> > > near 1000%  close.
> > > Heck I have used samples on my albums (from my EMU E4K,  EMAX 1, and 
> > > CLASSIC KEYS) sometimes on the same songs I used my  real M400 (when I 
> > had it) and 
> > > I defy anyone to tell me  which is which. And the E4K was using the 
> > Pinder 
> > > CD.  The M4000D samples are said to be way beyond the Pinder CD in 
> >  quality. 
> > > I think it's totally anal to hang on to tape playback  technology as 
> the 
> > > only thing that can be called "Mellotron" or  "Chamberlin". The 4000D 
> is 
> > just a 
> > > new and different  model in the family tree....made by the people who 
> own 
> > > the name  and masters.
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