The Mellotron Group

Replying to myself again, a well known side effect of
Renaissance IPA, any ideas why the tapes are notched
over the capstan on #1565?

Mark

PS I think I might have persuaded a local vintage
electrician to take an interest in #1565 so might have
some power going through it soon.

--- Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:

> No, I meant that the violins don't end together on
> all
> notes, that is that at the end of some notes it
> sounds
> like that only one violin is playing, at least on
> m-tron.
> 
> Mark
> --- jonesalley <jonesalley@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > I would imagine with that being a single-mic
> bedroom
> > recording (if the apocryphal tale is true) that
> the
> > note durations were counted off by Harry giving
> hand
> > signals to the three ladies, as the click of a
> > stopwatch would have been noticeable.  It's
> actually
> > kind of surprising that the note lengths are as
> > close as they are.  Have you ever timed the master
> > note lengths and seen what kind of variation
> exists?
> > 
> > 
> >       Each recording is not a precise 8 second
> take
> > so some stop early and some go on longer.  
> 
> 
> 
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