The Mellotron Group

Point taken,  I was tired.
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On 12/3/07, mellotronist <mellotronist@cox.net> wrote:
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> I'm not quite sure what you mean. Just because people still use a familiar
>  sound can't be conflated into the instrument being great, and of course
>  "crappy is relative." A lot of people on this list think Chamberlins suck,
>  but Mellotronists still use an original Chamberlin sound most of the time.
>  This entire survey is posited around personal opinion, there have been no
>  criteria set for the good keyboard vs. bad keyboard determinations to begin
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>  > That's a good argument, but you don't see DX7 piano on a basic Nord
>  > Lead sound set. Or look at the Electro series, Expensive, high end pro
>  > oriented gear built wih Roms with the original sounds. Crappy is
>  > relative: Rhodes have heavy action, Vakos have no action, clavs break
>  > strings, electrolytics fail often in Arps. Great is relative: Do
>  > people still want, nay, crave the sound 10, 20 years later.
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