The Mellotron Group

Hi-
   I now have to wonder who influenced Mantovani (other than the dollar sign)...
   Maybe this story has a better beginning.
 


--- On Sat, 9/27/08, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 4:45 PM










Being told that Mike Pinder was influenced by Mantovani ranks just behind Mike Dixon telling me that Sandy Denny sang out of tune, in a list  of things I wish I didn't know.

I can no longer listen to Sandy Denny and I suspect the Moody Blues are about to suffer the same fate. 

Mark


--- On Sun, 9/28/08, tomdcour <tomdcour@amnh. org> wrote:

From: tomdcour <tomdcour@amnh. org>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 9:13 AM




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?