In article et,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
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.

There was a sound FX one in the sound library at Teddington Studios when I
worked there. Dunno what happened to it - probably skipped. They were
never quality devices due to the slow tape speed and azimuth problems. But
a novel idea in its day.

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