Mellotronists

I wonder how similar both keyboards are to the Clavioline (of which 
there are currently 2 on eBay). My guess is that they are all 
somehow related.


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley" <jonesalley@c...> 
wrote:
> Fascinating bit of reading.  I believe an ancient issue 
of "Keyboard" 
> magazine or one of its linear predecessors was my source for 
the "Runaway" 
> info, which I found no reason to doubt when I got my hands on my 
own Solovox 
> around 1980.  Play that solo on the Solovox, and it is 
indistinguishable.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bernie Kornowicz" <kornowicz@c...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:54 AM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] [looking-for-answers] Re: Album Openers 
(Was: 
> Deadwing)
> 
> 
> > There seems to be some similarities:
> >
> > http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/solovox.html
> > http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/maxmusitron.html
> >
> >
> > --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley" 
<jonesalley@c...>
> > wrote:
> >> "Musitron???????"  That was a Hammond Solovox.
> >>   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>   From: marabus
> >>   To: looking-for-answers@yahoogroups.com
> >>   Cc: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> >>   Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:14 AM
> >>   Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: [looking-for-answers] Re: Album
> > Openers (Was: Deadwing)
> >>
> >>
> >>   I believe Max Crook's home built Musitron gets the gold star 
on
> > Del Shannon's "Runaway"-early '61
> >>   Pete
> >>
> >>   http://www.delshannon.com/runaway.htm
> >>   Carlos Baez wrote:
> >>
> >>     According to the Henry Ford Museum research center: "The 
first
> > Moog
> >>     synthesizer was one of two prototypes built by Robert Moog 
from
> >>     July-September 1964, with additional modules added in 1964 
and
> > 1965. One was
> >>     taken to Toronto University in 1965, while one was kept by 
the
> > inventor and
> >>     his colleague, Herbert Deutsch. It was used in live public
> > performance for
> >>     the first time in a concert at Town Hall in New York City on
> > September 25,
> >>     1965."
> >>
> >>     I'd always heard that the Monkees were the first to use one 
on
> > record as
> >>     well, but given the above dates, it appears someone else 
might
> > have actually
> >>     preceded them.
> >>
> >>     _________
> >>     >  Can you, Tom, or anyone else for that matter, cite an
> >>     example of the Moog synthesizer being used on a pop record
> > earlier than
> >>     Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. by the Monkees?
> >>
> >>
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