The Mellotron
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Learned something new today:
there’s one name that is very important to the history of the mellotron. Mike Pinder. he worked at the mellotron factory back in the day, then later went to use the instrument in a little-known band called the Moody Blues…and started a revolution in the process! The Beatles used it, King Crimson used it, Genesis used it, Yes used it, Black Sabbath used it…the list of names who used this instrument is endless!
[The Mellotron: A Keyboard with the Power of an Orchestra (1965)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkixaxjZCM) [Moody Blues: The Voice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20W4slP2PGg)
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Learned something new today:
there’s one name that is very important to the history of the mellotron. Mike Pinder. he worked at the mellotron factory back in the day, then later went to use the instrument in a little-known band called the Moody Blues…and started a revolution in the process! The Beatles used it, King Crimson used it, Genesis used it, Yes used it, Black Sabbath used it…the list of names who used this instrument is endless!
[The Mellotron: A Keyboard with the Power of an Orchestra (1965)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkixaxjZCM) [Moody Blues: The Voice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20W4slP2PGg)
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Nice clip, I must say. I first heard of the Melotron [sic] in 1984, in connection with Tangerine Dream (or was it Kraftwerk?). There is also a German electro-band called Melotron, not entirely unlike Depeche Mode. Bit odd that the trumpet continues after he releases that key, and begins just before he touches it: The Mellotron [at 1:39] - YouTube[^] Still is a nice clip though. :cool:
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Nice clip, I must say. I first heard of the Melotron [sic] in 1984, in connection with Tangerine Dream (or was it Kraftwerk?). There is also a German electro-band called Melotron, not entirely unlike Depeche Mode. Bit odd that the trumpet continues after he releases that key, and begins just before he touches it: The Mellotron [at 1:39] - YouTube[^] Still is a nice clip though. :cool:
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
That was the expensive, psychic model. So expensive that it couldn't be purchased off the shelf.
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Learned something new today:
there’s one name that is very important to the history of the mellotron. Mike Pinder. he worked at the mellotron factory back in the day, then later went to use the instrument in a little-known band called the Moody Blues…and started a revolution in the process! The Beatles used it, King Crimson used it, Genesis used it, Yes used it, Black Sabbath used it…the list of names who used this instrument is endless!
[The Mellotron: A Keyboard with the Power of an Orchestra (1965)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkixaxjZCM) [Moody Blues: The Voice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20W4slP2PGg)
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Although I'd seen a photo of a Mellotron in Wakeman's Six Wives of Henry VIIIth, I'd never read a description of how one actually worked, and its controls seemed strangely minimalist. So at a Yes concert in 1975, I went over to the mixing console and asked Eddie Offord, "How does a Mellotron work?" "Not very well", he replied. I thought he was being something of a smart ass but later learned that he was speaking the truth. :-D
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Learned something new today:
there’s one name that is very important to the history of the mellotron. Mike Pinder. he worked at the mellotron factory back in the day, then later went to use the instrument in a little-known band called the Moody Blues…and started a revolution in the process! The Beatles used it, King Crimson used it, Genesis used it, Yes used it, Black Sabbath used it…the list of names who used this instrument is endless!
[The Mellotron: A Keyboard with the Power of an Orchestra (1965)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkixaxjZCM) [Moody Blues: The Voice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20W4slP2PGg)
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I'm a great fan of the Moody Blues, and Mike Pinder! I think I still have most, if not all of the albums they released on vinyl.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm a great fan of the Moody Blues, and Mike Pinder! I think I still have most, if not all of the albums they released on vinyl.
Will Rogers never met me.
A Hammond B-3 weighed 425 lbs, not sure what the Leslie speaker you'd want would add to that. A Mellotron would have been a lot lighter, but I wonder how temperature differences touring during the winter would have messed up the tapes. I wonder if recording the signal on the edges of wheels would have worked better...
