Mellotron Demo

David's kind of grooving to his "French accordian with a Viennese waltz" thing, isn't he?

Clearly the corniest music ever made. How ironic that it became central some of the best progressive stuff ever. Gotta love the Mellotron story.

I wonder how a tape mechanism can react that fast...

fuckin' awesome!!!

are they considered synthesizers or samplers

@ninjae4976 Neither, it's tapes on springs, baby! I suppose technically you could call it a sampler.

Errrr...no. The Sound Source is analogue looped magnetic tape with all it's wonderfull rich sound and quirky modulations according to the mechanics. This can never be done with Samples or Software. Why do you think people still use these old instruments? Because they sound and feel better!

Because they actually recorded musical instruments and accompaniments!

Groovy, baby!

and it breaks when you move it. still radical.