Mellotronists

Gee I go away for a few days and look at the debate! Your 
Stratocaster analogy is off base Don. I was referring to my tron's 
reliability track record as a PLUS actually...for having the 
instrument for 25 years and having as few problems with it as I did 
speaks to the results that proper care of the unit will achieve.
 In my case...at 53 years old....let's say I wanted to re-create for 
whatever reason my keyboard rig of the 70s but with newer, lighter 
weight instruments. I had a Hammond M3,Wurlitzer 
elec.piano,M400,Miminoog,EML 101,Farfisa compact, and Instapiano.:)
  I'd get something like a Korg CX3 for the organs,a Minimoog 
Voyager,a Memotron, and maybe some other analog clone to do the 
EML...and a digital piano with all the Wurly sounds. Yeah my 
samplers could do all of these but changing internal banks etc. 
takes up time on stage. So yeah....the Memotron to ME would be 
useful for the reasons others have mentioned here...I could see Rick 
Wakeman loving this thing.
 I just got an email from Manikin that there are 15 on board effects 
and the ram holds 3 sounds at a time.If you thought there was too 
much reverb on their sound samples just turn the effects off..
 Nearfest...I could see many bands preferring to use this for a show 
over the real thing(Strawbs for example...I heard last year that 
Hawken barely touched the tron provided and used samples mostly)
 Don't get me wrong- I still LOVE the Mellotron.(hey wouldn't a 
Memotron look cool sitting on top of a 400?)



--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Don Tillman <don@t...> wrote:
>
>    > From: "charel196" <charel196@y...>
>    > Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:14:51 -0000
>    > 
>    > hey I LOVED and used my M400 live for 25 years and had an 
Anvil
>    > ATA case and was always on one end of it when it was moved so 
I
>    > know they can hold up on the road, if properly cared for. But 
in
>    > that 25 years I did have several tape breakages....and one 
motor
>    > card capacitor blow out.
> 
> And I used to love playing my Stratocaster, but in 25 years there 
were
> *several* string breakages.  So yeah, now I play a sampler with a
> cardboard cutout of a Stratocaster duct-taped over it, and that's 
much
> more reliable.  After all, what is rock'n'roll if not reliability,
> right?  :-)
> 
>    > I'm not too sure how many of these units they'll sell 
>    > anyway...given the limited niche market. But I am glad to see 
>    > it.Yeah....nothing will 100% duplicate the real deal but it 
could be 
>    > a useful tool.
> 
> "Useful tool"?
> 
> Okay... They're taking a generic sample-playing keyboard, putting 
it
> in a box that vaguely resembles the targeted musical instrument,
> slicing off some of the keys and likewise crippling the sampler's
> other capabilities to match the functional limitations of the 
targeted
> musical instrument, and marketing the result that as a modern 
version
> of that instrument.
> 
> At a deep philosophical level, don't you think that's... kind'a 
weird?
> 
>   -- Don
> 
> -- 
> Don Tillman
> Palo Alto, California
> don@t...
> http://www.till.com
>