Mellotronists

Hi Andy,
just a thought -way back in the 70s when I played Mellotron on Colin 
Scot's album 'Out of the blue', the producer Robin Cable (who used to 
engineer for Elton John) got me to track the Mellotrons three times 
in order to 'iron out' the discrepancies. Listening to other albums 
of the time, I think that was quite common practice, although not 
exclusively so (viz MikePinder and Rick Wakeman for just two examples.
There are reasonable hardware Mellotron violins and flutes on the Gem 
Promega 3, together with wobbly bits in the notes; rather than the 
emasculated versions on Vintage keys.

Best wishes,
Dave.

>
>Andy's right - has anyone here ever run into chords or intervals on 
>the 3 violins that they can't use due to tuning issues? I'm not sure 
>that tweaking every note would 'un-Mellotron' them, as it's the 
>tuning discrepancies within each note that produce that sound, but 
>it would be tempting, and very easy, to overdo it.
>
>Andy T.