The Mellotron Group

I uploaded a file to the files section of our homepage. It is a short clip  
of Michael Iceberg playing two Chamberlin M1 Remotes, which were part of 
his rig  at the time, known as, "The Iceberg Machine."
 
It was really quite incredible, as he had been "building" this thing for  
about eight years and was triggering all sorts of analog keyboards without  
MIDI
 
At the time his rig consisted of:
 
What appears to be a two manual (Lowery?) organ with a Prophet 5 on  top 
(originally a Polymoog). To his right he had (in 1979) a Yamaha CP-70 piano  
with an Oberheim 4-voice on top of it. Sandwiched in between the organ and 
the  piano was a Korg Vocoder.
 
To his left he had a Minimoog with no keyboard and to the left of that, a  
Moog Taurus 1 with the pedals removed and relocated below the organ. Also on 
the  left was a Steiner-Parker sequencer and below that was a Mutron 
Biphase. Also on  the left was an Oberheim SEM that was probably patched to the 
Steiner Parker  sequencer. Below the Minimoog was what appears to be a Sound 
Workshop 12  channel mixer. There also appears to be a TEAC mixer in there as 
well.
 
With his three main keyboards (2 organ manuals and the Prophet), he could  
access virtually any sound and assign them to any of the three keyboards. He 
 could also control the synths and the Chamberlin from the remoted Taurus 
pedals.  This was done with hand wired relays and triggers. Also mounted on 
his  left  and on a board in front of him were banks of switches and knobs 
that  he could manipulate to assign sounds to different keyboards, which, 
apparently,  he could split. The two Chamberlin remotes were controlled by two 
"ten speed  bicycle shifters" as he called them, mounted in front of him. I 
could go on  an on about how this whole thing worked, but suffice it to say, 
it did, and he  put on amazing shows. 
 
There's tons of video on you tube of his various rigs over the years.
 
Here are some photos of his 1979 rig. I will post them to the home page as  
soon as I can... but first, here's the file
 
_http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/8BAZT2pveAFSjsKCdpC3UJR1DDwYgcoDQqeBpzy5JlE40h
xmLMzYZaxhPIQqaHVPy0HvlcnpmQr9Du-UAsXqntAv8iQ21AE/Iceberg%20Chamberlin%20cli
p.mp3_ 
(http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/8BAZT2pveAFSjsKCdpC3UJR1DDwYgcoDQqeBpzy5JlE40hxmLMzYZaxhPIQqaHVPy0HvlcnpmQr9Du-UAsXqntAv8iQ21AE/Iceberg%20Chamberli
n%20clip.mp3) 
 








 
 
Below is a later version of the Iceberg Machine...  1983 or so. By then he 
had ditched the Yamaha piano and gotten a sampler for  piano. Still had the 
Chamberlins