The Mellotron Group

When I was 18, I went to see a band called the Musical Box who restage Genesis shows from the Gabriel era.  I already used to listen to my dad's vinyls a lot: Pink Floyd, early Genesis, Deep Purple, .. .
When I first saw the musical box I just started class to become audio producer.  They opened with "Watcher in the skies", and I thought... Well this sounds great, but... in 1972 there were no samplerkeyboards...  I thought.  So the next day I looked for the answer:  This was played on a Mellotron.  I fell in love with the instrument, bought my first M400 a few years later and now I have the great M4000