Mellotronists

Sorry, I'm a bit under the weather today - after an entire
days' rehearsal (and a gig last night) I'm a bit out of
sorts.

TapeOp is available, for free.  Their website,

http://www.tapeop.com/

doesn't contain any information about the current issue.

Ken Scott was a 2nd engineer at Abbey Road for the White
Album.  The interview covers some questions about various
artists he worked with, the Beatles, Supertramp, Missing
Persons, Elton John, David Bowie.  Pretty impressive that one
person worked with so many popular music icons (love 'em or
hate 'em)

I'm assuming that the mellotron is his is own personal
instrument (and not the property of a studio).  There's a
synth on top of the mellotron, synergy.  Never heard of that
synth, I only know of the prog band of the same name.

The mellotron is white.  Has the following controls, above
the keyboard, from the left: a 1/4" jack, 3 buttons marked
ABC (i'm guessing, each letter cooresponds to a sound on a
tape rack)  a set of 6 buttons marked 1-6 (tape banks?), a
set of 5 buttons, alternating white/black/white/black/white -
can't tell what the black ones are marked, though the white
ones are marked ABC.  The center of the instrument has two
knobs, one marked rhythm and the other I can't make out (3
letters, starts with F).  Over the right manual, from the
left, a large black knob, two smaller knobs (reverb and
volume) and another set of 6 buttons (though I can't see the
6th).

There is a video interview with him, at Abbey Road Studios,
at the following URL:

http://www.recordproduction.com/ken-scott.html

I think this video is a couple years old - he was working
with George Harrison at the time.

-jh

  

--- lsf5275@... wrote:

> Gosh John, there's some useful information.   Is there a
> URL for  this?
> 


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