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Willy Chamberlin?  Wasn't he the promiscuous basketball player?


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From: "leetronhead" <surfbeach@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: 35 Notes


> only 25 keys????????
> you have one of the defective ones...
> please return it to me for a full refund
> Willy Chamberlin
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> <punchbowl4@...> wrote:
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>> It's my understanding that Harry did use other instruments (like 
> bass
>> clarinet, etc.) to get lower registers of some sounds, including the
>> flute I believe..
>> BTW - the left hand of my M2 Chamberlin only has 25 notes.
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>> Vance
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>> I really wonder if the number was determined by a combination of; 1)
> the
>> size 
>> of the keyboard that Harry had for his prototype, 2)the number of 
> tape
>> heads 
>> he had available, and 3)the range of whatever sound he used for his
>> first 
>> experiments.
>> Perhaps it was that when he listened back to the recordings of
>> instruments played back, the higher notes just sounded too weird. I
>> still believe that the 35 note range was the only useful one. 
> Perhaps he
>> could have gone a bit lower on some instruments and higher on 
> others,
>> but overall, the 35 we have now was a compromise. Even now, boys 
> choir
>> does not sound like anything of this earth in the higher registers. 
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>> far up could you go with flute? Or Down? 8 choir is already doubled 
> in
>> the right end. Obviously the Bradleys agreed.
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>> Frank 
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