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OK I tried to post this question for Steven under the "Music and Musicians Chatter...." category in the main karaoke forum but I got a weird message stating "No posts exist for this topic". Anyway Steven, what synthesizers/sound modules/samplers do you still own?  Were you basically a Moog guy or ARP guy?

Check M&M category.  Hey Milo, you hear that ?  There's an M&M Category !!!

Moog was not affordable in the early 1970's for kids in their mid-early teens.  A few of the schools were getting the minimoogs for their HS labs but they were extremely costly. At over 1K (often closer to 4K) few HS kids (in the early 70's) were buying items such as Moog synths and Gretsch White Falcon guitars (1K), Gibson Citations (1K) etc.  A few years later Digital synthesis was available in other options that had more variety and interesting Rock sounds. Yet even those were closer to 2K during their advent or analog-digital synth transition period

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For some reason when I clicked on the last page of the M&M thread there were no posts there.  That's where I was getting confused.

Yeah you're right!  I've forgotten just how expensive even the Minimoog was when it first came out.  I actually built a synthesizer from a kit back around 1970.  The company PAIA sold a modular synth kit.  It didn't exactly have the most stable tone generator though.

The Mellotron was great sounding.  Their string, flute and vocal tape loops could be heard all over Yes, Moody Blues and King Crimson recordings.  Mike Pinder, the keyboardist from the Moodies put out a CD of his favorite Mellotron instrument sounds to be loaded into samplers. I bought a copy of the CD. It sounds very close to the real deal to me through my E-mu ESI-32.

I do remember seeing that synthesizer you mentioned in the Radio Shacks.  It was and still is good deal.

That's because the samples ARE the real deal.  They are tape loops of the actual instrument playing the tone. The Pinder Mellotron is back in production. Mellotron is a company in Calgary Alberta Canada. Originally a european company Mellotron concept has been in production since early 1960's (an indication that old and past technology aint all bad) bulky however ?  YEP !!  Costly to keep up ?  probably. Chamberlin (Harry Chamberlins Co that started this in 1948) (sample loop playback keyboard) Mellotron (which ran into trademark problems) became *Novatron*, etc



Trivia,  First huge release where the Mellotron is prominent is Strawberry Fields (1966)


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