Mellotronists

The Orchestron on eBay--100 pounds?!? That's the weight of a couple 
Optigans. Must be the bulletproof road case. Those bigger monster 
model Orchestrons--you'd think a little better fidelity would come 
out of something like that. Filmstrip light aperature audio 
reproduction--seems truly archaic with Talentmakers, Optigans and 
Orchestrons even back 25-30 years ago, but we all can think of some 
pretty good old black and white movies that had decent audio. It must 
have been quite a feat to record big band orchestras when that was 
the recording medium...before the lame wire recordings of the 40's 
and the advent of (hooray!) tape.

Great Moodies song actually--sounds like a lost track from 1968 from 
the In Search Of The Lost Chord era. Detailed history of this track 
please! For an instant, I thought it might have been one of the 
studio tracks on the Caught Live + Five double.

The first track was a gem too--the way it builds and utilises layers 
of Mellotron variety. Detailed history on that one too, please.