The Mellotron Group

Oddly enough, I knew someone whose pitch was so good he had to give up 
music altogether as everything sounded out of tune to him. He said that 
the radio gave him particular cause for pain. He also studied piano up 
to grade god-knows-what and had to ditch that as, instead of being like 
everyone else and hearing pleasing harmonics in the distortions between 
the tuning of strings, he just heard bits of clanging metal resonating 
at different levels.

Mike

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> Wish it were true. I used to play with a guy by the name of Grayson 
> Hugh who has absolute pitch. The band could never be in tune enough 
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSpfm6hoWE&feature=related 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSpfm6hoWE&feature=related>
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> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
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> > Being told that Mike Pinder was influenced by Mantovani ranks just 
> behind Mike Dixon telling me that Sandy Denny sang out of tune, in a 
> list? of things I wish I didn't know.
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> > I can no longer listen to Sandy Denny and I suspect the Moody Blues 
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> > --- On Sun, 9/28/08, tomdcour tomdcour@... wrote:
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> > From: tomdcour tomdcour@...
> > Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
> > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 9:13 AM
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> > Recently ,in an interview, Mike Pinder expressed that Mantovani had 
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> > mellotron work. Vaguely remembering some haunting strains of "Love 
> is a Many Splendored
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> > Thing" I went on Google to find out more. The first site I visited 
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> > Nurse Ratchet played to calm down the patients in 'One Flew Over the 
> Cuckoo's Nest". This
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> > he was responsible for the Musak I had to listen to in the 60's and 
> 70's while my mom was
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> > shopping in the lingerie department. Bad associations! Then I began 
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> > his unique studio methods. "Cascading Strings"!! Listening back to 
> the clip, I was no longer
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> > sure if I was hearing an orchestra drenched in a lot of reverb or 
> the string section doing
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> > something weird. I am wondering if ,perhaps, he had a rank of 
> violins playing the melody and
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> > another picking it up at a lower volume followed by yet another and 
> another- simulating
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> interesting. Anyone know anything
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