The Mellotron Group

This thread had me curious.  I'm not very familiar with the M300 sound
so I listened at the Mike Dickson site.  What are some examples of
songs/bands that use M300 strings?  I'm guessing the traditional Prog
bands didn't use.
 
Thanks,
John

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From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Pring
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:19 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain
the sound of the M300 violins



Yes, but the sound I want has proved to be elusive, I think I might need
an M300 to get it and my wife most certainly won't let me go there.  I
haven't heard it from an M400, Mark II  or M4000 to my knowledge. In
some ways I think it might be better to have it as unattainable goal,
the holy grail of mellotron sounds for me. In any case I have grown very
fond of the Mark II strings on the old tape set.

Mark

--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com> wrote:


	From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com>
	Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to
explain the sound of the M300 violins
	To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
	Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 9:15 AM
	
	

	
Two 1968 violins will do that to you.  New tape set, Mark?
-Bruce D.


--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Mark Pring <markpringnz@ yahoo.com> wrote:


	From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@ yahoo.com>
	Subject: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to
explain the sound of the M300 violins
	To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
	Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 9:16 PM
	
	

	" I was reminded of something- an elusive rhythm, a fragment of
lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a
phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb
man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of
startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered
was uncommunicable forever."