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Re: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain the sound of the M300 violins

2009-02-26 by Mark Pring

Yes, but the sound I want has proved to be elusive, I think I might need an M300 to get it and my wife most certainly won't let me go there. I haven't heard it from an M400, Mark II or M4000 to my knowledge. In some ways I think it might be better to have it as unattainable goal, the holy grail of mellotron sounds for me. In any case I have grown very fond of the Mark II strings on the old tape set.

Mark

--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Bruce Daily wrote:
From: Bruce Daily
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain the sound of the M300 violins
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 9:15 AM

Two 1968 violins will do that to you. New tape set, Mark?
-Bruce D.


--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Mark Pring wrote:
From: Mark Pring
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] F. Scott Fitzgerald trying to explain the sound of the M300 violins
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 9:16 PM


" I was reminded of something- an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever."



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