The Mellotron Group

Played it, hated it.

The keyboard is heavier than a direct action pipe organ, thanks to the 
keys being sprung with something that could have been used to catapult 
boulders over a castle wall 600 years ago. Worse than that is the noise 
from the mechanics of the machine. Dear god...all those little 8 track 
cartridges clattering away constantly. I never thought much of the 
fidelity either, although that may have had something to do with the 
state of the recordings.

Even worse though is that it all works on tape loops, thereby losing 
that characteristic attack that actually signals what a sound is.Without 
it (say) a solo cello and a solo voice sound amazingly similar, although 
with the reproduction problems the Birotron had it's amazing it sounded 
like anything at all. It's better than the Orchestron (which seems to 
have a library of sine waves, clicks and white noise) but not by much.


tronbros@aol.com wrote:
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> It's the one we restored about 7 years ago!
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-- 
Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

Free Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
Or http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/