Mellotronists

Now here's one for you and we'd welcome your  comments...................
 
Just recently we have been asked to tune up original recordings.  One  
instance was the MKII Flute and the other was the MKII Brass.  Both these  
recordings are amongst the most popular ever in the Mellotron Song Book.  
 
As a policy we never mess as we hold to the opinion that all our  favourite 
albums were made with the sounds as they were originally  recorded.  However, 
the tuned up versions sounded fantastic and even  seasoned pedantic bastards 
like us agreed that it was wonderful not to have to  find chord inversions to 
avoid THAT NOTE!
 
Talking with Woolly Wolstenholme, he says that half his time was spent  
trying to find smooth chordal progressions that kept in tune as best as possible  
and he had favourite notes in the M300A violins that he tried to always  avoid.
 
There are so many dire notes amongst the recordings that you  become over 
aware of when making tapes and the temptation is to  fix the buggers. So what do 
you think about altering history even if the end  result makes things a lot 
easier to use?
 
Best,
 
Martin

STREETLY ELECTRONICS - All things Mellotronic
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