On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:29:48 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Give me 1/4 million and five years, and I'll do it for you..

That little cash?

Ultimately the problems of doing accurate SYNTHESIS were overcome by the
art of sampling. Rather like the original ..bugger I forget the name -
you know with a million lops of tape running inside it. Think Moody
Blues..

The Moody Blues used a Mellotron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron

Interesting history and development. They don't make 'em like that
anymore.

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Cheers
Dave.