The Mellotron Group

My folks had a lot of Mantovani albums when I began growing up, so I
heard his music all the time. Maybe that's why I like Pinder's
Mellotron arrangements. Don't know anything about his cascading
strings though. I've been watching some of his clips on Youtube and
interestingly (or not), it was mentioned in a comment that he
wrote "Cara Mia" under a pseudonym.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "tomdcour" <tomdcour@...>
wrote:

>
> Recently ,in an interview, Mike Pinder expressed that Mantovani had

been an influence on his

> mellotron work. Vaguely remembering some haunting strains of "Love

is a Many Splendored

> Thing" I went on Google to find out more. The first site I visited

had a clip of the music that

> Nurse Ratchet played to calm down the patients in 'One Flew Over

the Cuckoo's Nest". This

> put me in a bad frame of mind to be open to Mr. Mantovani. Indeed I

started to suspect that

> he was responsible for the Musak I had to listen to in the 60's and

70's while my mom was

> shopping in the lingerie department. Bad associations! Then I began

to read about some of

> his unique studio methods. "Cascading Strings"!! Listening back to

the clip, I was no longer

> sure if I was hearing an orchestra drenched in a lot of reverb or

the string section doing

> something weird. I am wondering if ,perhaps, he had a rank of

violins playing the melody and

> another picking it up at a lower volume followed by yet another and

another- simulating

> reverb. The effect, if you can bear to listen to it, is very

interesting. Anyone know anything

> more about cascading strings or Mr. Mantovani?
>