Mellotronists

> From: "Paul Marshall" <paulm@...>
   > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:34:00 +0100
   > 
   > Just been listening to Moodies 'On The Threshold...'.
   > 
   > Anyone know what that gorgeous sound is which opens AND closes
   > the album (s ort of a deep rumble with glistening bits over the
   > top)?

I don't know the real answer, but I'll take a wild-ass guess...

I think it's a tape recording of a single sustained note slowed down
so much that the ultrasonic bias oscillator frequency is audible as
the high pitch.  The quivering effect on the high pitch would be the
wow and flutter of the tape.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
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