mellotron

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[mohrizm]

thank you very much to add, and i will put another movie that took in National Media Museum later!

[kn1ghtstemplar]

I do not get this. Why put such daft tapes on a MKII Mellotron it`s a musical instrument indeed one of the best ever invented. Train noises? Sheesh!

[Johnnywr]

I think they`re flirting

[newworldodour]

@MyDadsMusic1 I watched a youtube vid called "no offense to the americans :) .. but its so funny" The video was funny but the comments were by far the funniest part of the upload as just about every other comment there were Americans trying to claim British inventions as their own, most of them are so hopelessly lost and confused that they think the telephone was an American invention totally unaware that Bell was Scottish, not to mention computers, jet engines etc etc etc unreal

[newworldodour]

@kn1ghtstemplar I'm not sure but it might be one of the BBC's old Mellotron's which I had the opportunity to buy which at the time was loaded with nothing but special effects when I saw it. Obviously digital samplers didn't exist then and this was the next best thing, I think they had 3 altogether all specifically for sound effects and not to be played as an instrument.

[willregnier]

@kn1ghtstemplar Steven Wilson would like it! Haha!

[konked]

@kn1ghtstemplar BBC was one of the first customers on the instruments because with mellotron they could fit the effects for radio dramas just in the right place and right time. Music is only one if wonderful aspect.

[nerblebun]

@mindgarde12 MyDadsMusic might be stupid... but I don't think anyone is stupid enough to mess with a pissed off Texan.

[mindgarde12]

@MyDadsMusic1 you want to talk some smack on americans come down here to texas and I'll show you how we treat shit talkers. Cant stand all these foriegners generalizing americans. I might live in texas but that doesnt mean I ride a horse or drive a truck. I can take care of some dinky headed stuck up foriegners though. Got a cattle brander and a roll of barbed wire waiting for you bro. CHEERS

[MyDadsMusic1]

@YoMyEx Definitely don't remember anything about this comment, Mellotrons and definitely Americans? I like all of the Americans that I have met,..........................­................ but there are issues that go deep and here is not the relevant place to discuss them, sorry if I have offended you in some way. MDM

[YoMyEx]

@MyDadsMusic1 definitely a bigot

[ITCXTC]

The forerunner of the Mellotron was used to put laugh tracks and sound effects in radio programs. It was a sound effects device before it was a musical instrument.

[flamincow11]

what a waste of a beautiful instrument, put some real noises on that