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- noun music An early
electronic keyboard instrument that played backprerecorded sounds .
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A spurious argument (essentially trading one evil for another) to be sure, but one which I fear will be picked up by the usual marketing propagandists at Peabody and Massey, et al. The mellotron is your friend. by archigeek at
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" We ' ve got the exact sample of the mellotron on ' Strawberry Fields, ' " Joey Curatolo said last week at the Neil Simon Theatre, a few days after opening night.
Beatles for Sale Steven Kurutz 2010
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A fellow named Dave Biro took the mellotron principle one step further, and spliced each 8-track tape into a continuous loop, so it could hold the notes indefinitely.
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I love the production, the echo in his voice, the thin guitar solo, the quiet mellotron in the back.
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I love the production, the echo in his voice, the thin guitar solo, the quiet mellotron in the back.
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I wonder what Fripp thought about that, and I wonder if Elvis used a mellotron…
You Don’t Look Like Your Head’s Exploded Yet Today « Whatever 2007
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While the memotron is much more compact than a real mellotron it still has a vibe that is somewhat vintage and you can place another keyboard on top of it just like in the good old days.
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For DIY, how about making a mellotron out of a dot matrix printer?
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But seeing as a real mellotron will run you three times as much, is much harder to move, less reliable. and not to mention the price of all those tape banks, I think the memotron will be great for touring bands who use mellotron sounds a lot.
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As for personal taste, I like the arp/mellotron/oscar emulators better than the real thing.
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