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Re: OT- NAMM 2011

2011-01-23 by Charles

Mellotron Digital was already used in the past and has a bad rep:)

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
>
> Charles, you have it backwards... It's a Mellotron Digital, not a  
> Mellotron.
>  
> I agree that there is a place for it if you have to have a white box that  
> looks vaguely familiar. But the box makes little difference. If it was 
> orange  and had shorter keys and a different cabinet and control placement would 
> you  feel the same?
>  
> I like it... I hate the name. I would have called it a Mellotron Digital. I 
>  think it's a better name. Mellotrons (generically) play tape. Samplers 
> play  samples.
>  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 1/23/2011 12:25:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> charel196@... writes:
> 
> As I  said...it's a DIGITAL Mellotron, not a Mellotron.
>

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