The Mellotron Group

After watching several Youtube videos of Orchestron playing (like Pea Hicks' recent posting) I am amazed no one ever seems to use a volume pedal on the thing and a good long delay/reverb to get more realistic swells & cut offs & smoothing over the loop glitches. I think those things might sound good if properly played with a pedal & run thru some noise filtering.
 I wonder if Vako had had the budget to use higher quality technology (like a laser for reading the discs, better motors and audio circuitry, and thicker and more rigid records instead of the flimsy Optigan discs) what the result might have been? An Orchestron could have been built with all the sound/optical records placed stacked in a seperate cabinet never having to be touched and accessed remotely by a master control keyboard.