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#436949 - 09/04/1702:27 PMRe: Arranger long before arrangers were around?!
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Melodious
Member
Registered: 06/28/17
Posts: 64
Loc: Florida
The first time I became aware of the Mellotron was when a band called King Crimson used it in their concerts. I fell in love with it after hearing "In the garden of the crimson king". Fantastic sound(s)!
Registered: 01/02/04
Posts: 7306
Loc: Lexington, Ky, USA
Believe it or not, at recently as 1990, there was a group of entertainers, supposedly including Stevie Wonder and Billy Joel who were supporting the maintenance of the Melotron. At the time, a new one was about $250,000.00.
#437048 - 09/06/1705:02 AMRe: Arranger long before arrangers were around?!
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Bachus
Senior Member
Registered: 03/02/06
Posts: 7143
Most of the orriginal Melotron sounds can be found in the Nord sample librarie... Somehow Nord got the rights for the orriginal melotron master tapes..