The Mellotron Group

My folks had a lot of Mantovani albums when I began growing up, so I 
heard his music all the time. Maybe that's why I like Pinder's 
Mellotron arrangements. Don't know anything about his cascading 
strings though. I've been watching some of his clips on Youtube and 
interestingly (or not), it was mentioned in a comment that he 
wrote "Cara Mia" under a pseudonym.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "tomdcour" <tomdcour@...> 
wrote:
>
> Recently ,in an interview, Mike Pinder expressed that Mantovani had 
been an influence on his 
> mellotron work. Vaguely remembering some haunting strains of "Love 
is a Many Splendored 
> Thing" I went on Google to find out more. The first site I visited 
had a clip of  the music that 
> Nurse Ratchet played to calm down the patients in 'One Flew Over 
the Cuckoo's Nest". This 
> put me in a bad frame of mind to be open to Mr. Mantovani. Indeed I 
started to suspect that 
> he was responsible for the Musak I had to listen to in the 60's and 
70's while my mom was 
> shopping in the lingerie department. Bad associations! Then I began 
to read about some of 
> his unique studio methods. "Cascading Strings"!! Listening back to 
the clip, I was no longer 
> sure if I was hearing an orchestra drenched in a lot of reverb or 
the string section doing 
> something weird. I am wondering if ,perhaps, he had a rank of 
violins playing the melody and 
> another picking it up at a lower volume followed by yet another and 
another- simulating 
> reverb. The effect, if you can bear to listen to it, is very 
interesting. Anyone know anything 
> more about cascading strings or Mr. Mantovani?
>