The Mellotron Group

In the Pea Hicks video when he's demo'ing the Orchestron, the violins disc sounds a lot like they sampled Mellotron violins too me. I thought I read long ago that Vako used a Mellotron to make some of the discs.

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@...> wrote:
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> Orchestrons can made to sound really good (different than a Mellotron) by
> using what you describe below.
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> Vako never had the budget for the laser reader and it was nothing bnut
> marketing. I have stickers on my that say it's read by lasers but it's
> nonsense.
> 
> There were suppsedly some glass test discs made but those broke easy and
> they stuck to the Optigan format.
> All of the discs  stacked in one system would have been a good idea too!!
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> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Charles <charel196@...> wrote:
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> > 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.
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