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"There’s something on your page where it claims you doused the last Mellotron you owned in petrol and set fire to it. Is that true?"
MellotronWe did this very simple trick with the Mellotron which I dont think ha — Mellotron
"We did this very simple trick with the Mellotron which I dont think had been done before. In "Watcher of the Skies" in particular, we put it directly through one side of the PA system while putting it via a CopyCat echo machine through the other side, so you got this massive stereo effect"
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The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. As the key is released, the tape is retracted by a spring to its initial position. Different portions of the tape can be played for different sounds.
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