The Mellotron: A Keyboard with the Power of an Orchestra (1965) | British Pathé
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- British T.V. personalities, Eric Robinson and David Nixon, introduce us to an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard otherwise known as the 'Mellotron.'
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The personalities Eric Robinson and David Nixon introduce us to the musical instrument the Mellotron, London.
Various shots of large country garden. L/S of swimming pool. L/S of garden with white doves on the grass. M/S of large country cottage. The narrator introduces us to the personality Eric Robinson who explains to us from his living room armchair the new instrument we are about to see which can make all the sounds of an orchestra, but can be played by one person - The Mellotron.
The camera pans as Eric walks to introduce us to his son-in-law the magician David Nixon. M/S of David Nixon seated at the Mellotron that looks very much like a piano or organ. Eric and David talk about the complexities of the machine. Then David gives a demonstration and lets rip with two fingers only to produce an awesome sound!. C/U of Nixon's hands as he twists a few knobs to add a trombone sound, and starts to play again.
M/S of Eric asking David what other rhythms the machine can play. David replies by launching into a French accordion with a Viennese waltz. C/U from inside the machinery of the Mellotron. We see the various components at work as David plays.
Finally, Eric introduces us to Geoff Unwin an expert pianist to show what the machine can really do. M/S of Geoff playing great piece of music, the Mellotron produces a variety of amazing sixties musical sounds. M/S of Geoff finishing the piece. He turns to the camera and smiles.
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It's fascinating how an instrument, advertised almost the same way as they would for a kitsch, home/living room organ, designed for frustrated non-musician , became one of the flagship for progressive rock
Always a question of using it a proper or bad way ;)
I think you can thank Mike Pinder for that.
@@Derayes Yes but the irony is that it is not known because is has been played the "proper way" as the creators imagined, but because it was used the "bad way", for its strange fake sound...
They targeted the wrong audience, but sure found the right one!!
@@HamptonGuitars just like the Roland 303. First made as a replacement for bass players but flopped so were deleted until one got into the hands of an early acid house producer who totally turned it upside down and created a new genre and new audience/customers resulting in it being put back into production with some moderations
"well, David isn't a musician as you know"
David is crying behind the camera
2112 ProtoStage yea that was cruel
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I thought the exact same thing LOL! The thing is I liked his playing better than the professional musical chap that followed him!
2112 ProtoStage I think it’s meant to say that you don’t have to be a virtuoso pianist or electrical genius to use a Mellotron
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 Hahaha
Believe it or not, we have a mellotron. My Dad bought it in 67’. While not a musician, he loved it having gained keyboard experience with his accordion! I can still hear the thing warming up or resetting for about 10 minutes. It’s still at the family home in Norwalk in my Moms house.
Does it still play?
Are you selling it? Maybe life isn't too bad with just 1 kidney.
@@jacquesmertens3369 if OP wants 2 beans we can share the mellotron, if he wants 3, we can share a kidney
Norwalk Ohio?
😳🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯!!!!!!!!
This is one of the funniest, most incredibly Anglo videos of all time. Just brilliant.
there’s one name that is very important to the history of the mellotron. Mike Pinder. he worked at the mellotron factory back in the day, then later went to use the instrument in a little-known band called the Moody Blues…and started a revolution in the process! The Beatles used it, King Crimson used it, Genesis used it, Yes used it, Black Sabbath used it…the list of names who used this instrument is endless!
Very cool bit of music history.
ABBA used one on the Waterloo album sampling a jangly guitar.
The Moody Blues are criminally underrated. And Pinder could definitely work magic on his mellotron. I hope your comment encourages at least a couple people to check them out! Really great band.
Strawbs - Hero and Heroine Groundhogs - Who Will Save The World are other great 'tron bands/songs. Of course most people in late 60s heard Mellotron first early '67 on Strawberry Fields meant to be on Pepper but released earlier as a single; then it was King Crimson in '69 that put it on the map even though the Moody's great To Our Children's Children's Children LP had a LOT of 'tron on it same year but was only starting to break the band - after '69 we went back in time to late '67 for Days Of Future Passed with White Satin and Tuesday Afternoon making them hits years after they came out. King Crimson had 2 of 'em on stage not just for occasional dual blasts of majestic weird strings but because they were flaky as F with American AC not helping much...this during the Lark's Tongue/Red days of KC. Genesis bought a hand me down Mk II from King Crimson which you can obviously hear on Watcher Of The Skies opening. 🎹
The Rolling Stones also used it. Legend has it that Brian Jones was one of the first people in the U.K. to own one.
The mellotron is basically the worlds first sampler.
Yes, but a technological feat of its time in the sphere of music considering its complexity and the fact it was analog.
@@jamesaron1967 I am aware.
Not basically, literally!
Marshallemmet Yeah, but it was a. ripoff of the Chamberlin. So the Mellotron was the first to get noticed. But Chamberlin deserve credit for being first since it was his idea and blueprints.
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1:12 "I thought you'd never ask" the most sincere line ever
It's the kind of thing that happens when spontaneity is allowed to flourish.
That because he doesn't ignore it. Feedback is very important for them because it ensures the product's quality
I get it... How do you sell a new technology without showing how it really works? He obviously knew he would have to play it otherwise why was he sitting behind it. He probably had rehearsed what he had to play knowing he's not a "musician" 🤣 🤣🤣
David: “Well, I’m a frustrated musician, Eric”
Eric: “David isn’t a musician, as you know”
Ouch
Well what should he say to someone shagging his daughter, who is older than he himself?
David is not a musician!😂😂
That must have been frustrating.
Well, I enjoyed David's playing even if Eric was unimpressed.
No wonder he's frustrated, eh?
I love the optimism captured in this mid-20th-century film. At the time, is seemed like every problem known to man was just waiting to be solved with technology! Don't have an orchestra? No problem!
Mike Pinder's use of the mellotron was one of the earliest and most substantial.
"And remember 007, pushing the lowest B-flat starts the timer on the bomb hidden in the speaker. You'll have 10 seconds to get out of the room before it explodes."
this comment is pure gold
Meanwhile on Looney Tunes...
YOU IDIOT! That's the wrong key! I'll show you how it's playin!
A bomb in the speaker ! Your joking.
@@DavidSmith-ze2wi I never joke about my work 007.
@@DavidSmith-ze2wi A bomb? No! It's a B-flat bomb!
2:44 and thus, drum n bass was born
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Nah that was Amen Brother by the winstons. Only time an entire musical genre was based on one drum break. ruclips.net/video/5SaFTm2bcac/видео.html
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@@TheMoogaloo it's a joke but also i'm pretty sure that while the amen break was indeed popular among dnb producers, they used other drum samples as well
"I have a professional pianist here" Proceeds to rack his fingers up and down the keyboard and hit the same notes over and over quickly.
He wasn't convincing.
He's not a *Pro*
Not epic
Maybe if he practices more, one day he'll be as good as david
StrykrTV David was way better
@@sesclaytpoop8525 needs more BASS
This instrument has a wonderful tone and you can't get it today in any modern synthesizer because you can't emulate the wow and flutter just right. It sounds so fun!
Chase Bliss Audio Generation Loss MkII gets really close though!
Tone? It's not producing a sound, its just playing a tape recording
@@macaroon147 Rather wow and fluttery I might add. But that's its charm.
You can replicate it by sampling it
All the flutter, wow, imperfections and warts of the tape come through
The Mellotron was basically a sampler, use the same method
Amazing what a masterpiece King Crimson was able to produce with this toy just four years later.
So revolutionary people my age still talking about it
So true. With people of the calibre of Greg Lake (RIP) and Robert Fripp on board, how could it be otherwise. 21st Century Schizoid Man still does it for me every time, amazing talent.
"come over and meet my son-in-law"
And his son-in-law is older than he is.
Johnny Cats oh god I thought the same thing.
Innit!!! Hilarious!!!
Johnny Cats, ROFLMFAO!!!!!!
His daughter perhaps liked older men? 😆
LMFAO
David plays some blues and a viennese waltz...
"well, David isn't a musician as you know"
😂 it was as much to advertise the Mellotron as helping the less virtuosic musician to make music as much as it was for the serious performer!
It’s not the best scripted advert I know...they clearly meant that anyone with a basic piano technique could make amazing sound with it
Tbh I like David's demos way more than the pro pianist's
In the UK he was famous as a magician!
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 Yes.. look how "David" plays it, using purposely one finger in each hand, but after that playing with the left hand in octaves.
@@coelhoigor Same haha
The smile at the end :D
Wow! I came here via a Wikipedia page for Strawberry Fields Forever mentioning a Mellotron and discovered David Nixon, a man from childhood TV that I had completely forgotten about, demonstrating it. If only RUclips was like that all the time.
I remember David Nixon from sixties television , was he a magician?
@@stevenclarke5606 Yes, Steven, he was. I never knew he invented the Mellotron though.
I too remember David Nixon on TV from my childhood days and had also forgotten all about him. He did ‘magic tricks’ and was, I believe, a member of the UK magic circle. To memory, he came over as a quite refined and professional gentleman. Apparently, he died relatively young in 1978 of lung cancer, which is sad.
Eric Robinson: "Notice how we don't bother pushing the Melotron against the wall. The repair technician is hiding off-camera ready and waiting for when the instrument needs servicing again (and again)".
You know it, Ever! Moody Blues toured with at least 4, and always 2 of them at a time had to be serviced before their next gigs! -Visconti
Thats why the tops were always left off
Melotron: the most optimistic instrument ever made!
Reminds me of router manufacturers just giving up and just put switches on all power-chords to make it easier to force an unexpected power outage.
Did moody blues use one on Tuesday afternoon?
This is what the 60s sounded like, then add in a theramin and we have every movie and t.v. sound track ever made
Thats exactly what I thought
If it wasn't for the Theramin, we would never have conquered outer space....haha.
I remember that in 1966 the Beach Boys employed it in their Good Vibrations recording. That must have been the last time it was used....the synthesizer stole everything.
These gentlemen look like somebody's grand-dad, yet The Mellotron was heard on some of the most far-out Rock and Psychedelic reordings of the 60's and 70's.
Well...David isn't a musician as you know. David had my attention actually.
Cy Brunel David Nixon was one of the most famous entertainers and magicians at the time...he had a LOT of charisma and was obsessed with technology. In fact, he was one of the first to have pioneered the use of camera effects on tv shows as actual entertainment rather than hidden effects.
He also did a terrific cut and restored rope trick with his microphone cable as part of his act...pantomime at its best!
The things you learn from RUclips!
I never knew that Eric Robinson was David Nixon's father-in-law and they were responsible for the Mellotron.
Respect!!
Can't remember what David Nixon did on TV, but I do remember seeing him through sixties.
It's magical.
@@stevehay964 Oh Yeah!! Now I remember.
David Nixon’s Magic Box, which morphed into The David Nixon Show - featuring other magicians besides himself and people from the world of entertainment - used to replace Opportunity Knocks in the summer months at one time!
Fun Fact: Samples off of The Mellotron were used to make tracks in Minecraft and Little Big Planet.
Only because Mellotron owners made those sounds available digitally in the 1990's.
Wow! So this is basically the ancestor of the modern keyboard.
id reckon the piano has that title
What happened is that musicians built their own tape loops and libraries. Recording sounds they wanted - what we call samples today - so that there became a vast variety of possibilities. Swapping them in and out was a huge pain, but there was nothing else like it. Often, it was the left hand loops - the packaged rhythms were an easy target - because they served no purpose for creators like those mentioned previously. So after a while, each Mellotron played by a big time pro was unique, having its own set of custom tape loops. Rick Wakeman was an early pioneer, as was Tony Banks. I saw them both live in the early - mid 70s (Genesis in 73, Yes in 76. Also Pink Floyd in 73. All used Mellotrons). That it was developed at all seems somehow miraculous. That some middle-class Brits in the early-mid 60s with appallingly bad taste could create something that changed how music was created. High maintenance, lots of playback heads, guides and capstans to clean, and tape oxidizes over time, and the more you use it, the more material it leaves behind, eventually degrading whatever is on it. But hey, who had ever heard anything like it?
Thanks for the added insight!
Now I know where all that cheesy music came from in all those low budget movies of the 1960s.
I wouldn't call the Moody Blues and dozens of other symfopop en prog rock formations "cheesy". The mellotron didn't have a long life, though, as from 1969 the Moog Synthesizer elbowed it out of the way.
@@willemvandeursen3105 Please read my post over again. I made NO MENTION of ANY musical group.
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Okay. Next time I'll add a :--) after every sentence I post on YT.
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@@willemvandeursen3105 good.
Ha ha ha, true ;)
Mellotron for me is always remembered with the MOODY BLUES "Days of future passed".......
I owned one once.. 1972 when i was in NZ.. It had four large banks of tapes that needed to be lifted in and out to change sound. strings, male choir, female choir and mixed choir. supposedly recorded each note with real sounds on to 1/4 inch tape.
I loaned to a recording studio to be used by Spit Enz to be used on one of their early recordings.
@@contemporaryviola... !974 was when i loaned Split Enz the Mellotron from my music store in Glen Innes. Their drummer then was a Kiwi working for Beverly Bruce and Goldi, an importer and wholesaler of Lowery organs, and many other brands of musical instruments; also the manufacturer of Janzen amps.
I'm blowed if i can remember the drummers name. He was a wonderful tech chap who did all the servicing of my amps, organs and the like, tall slim, long hair.
When Split Enz left for England he remained in NZ as he thought he had a very well paid job at BB&G, a family etc and wasn't prepared to take the chance.
That is why split Enz employed a Pommie drummer when they arrived in Britain.
The rest is as they say is History.
That's David Nixon the famous TV magician, isn't it. Loving the tape loops btw, mechanical nightmare.
Could this keyboard be the great grandfather of all keyboard arrangers and samplers? It's a very impressive work for what they were able to accomplish, with the limited technology, back in the days.
Imagine what David could play on it, if he was a musician lol
Without this, there would have not been prog rock. Look at the sounds, that Genesis, yes, and many others, got out the mellotron! A fellow, even did 2 albums of classic music, using just the mellotron, and it sounds amazing. Love it.
Was that "Fellow" Wendy Carlos with "Switched on Bach"?
@ghost mall I wasn't making any kind of gender point or "Jerk" comment - I was attempting to dispel the anonymity in the original comment in case anyone wanted to go and check out the work referred to. You might want to back off that hair-trigger a little bit.
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@@alanmusicman3385 No because Switched On Bach was highlighing the Moog Modular Synthesiser
Thank you so much- what a wonderful look at the Mellotron in action at the very start! And boy does that pianist have some balls!
One of the amazing things about its conception and creation was that it DIDN'T USE tape loops at all. It was an intricate system where every time you pressed a key, the corresponding tape would start playing FROM the attack of the note by the recorded instrument. And the attack is what defines most musical instruments' characteristics.
Holy cow... Once Rick Wakeman, The Bealtles, King Crimson and Led Zeppelin got a hold of one of these... one of the most magical eras in music came to fruition.
2:40 he's just thinking *"...this is going to be so awesome..."*
David had is own TV shows in the 60's he was a Brilliant Magician
Ah yes, the Mellotron! Technically the first sample playback keyboard!
The power and the glory of our Mellotron Overlord on display! Reverence and praise to tape replay!
As this technology developed, the Mellotron spawned analog string synthesizers with a warmth digital synthesizers still struggle today to mimic. Used widely in the early 70's for demos and where live performance conditions (including budgetary constraints) precluded the use of an actual string ensemble, these analog keyboards were the next best thing.
I've listened to the Moody Blues for years, and never knew how the Mellotron worked. Cool. It's like an early version of sampling.
Michael Pinder worked in the factory that made Mellotrons for 18 months.
Moody Blues brought me here, hihih 🖤
It IS an early version of sampling
Astounding! Just love Mike Pinder's playing the mellotron on the Moodie's album A Question of Balance. Wish I had a mellotron!
Yes, Mike Pinder was a master of this instrument as well as a lyricist. A question of balance is a very tight musical album.
What a technical master piece of its time! I've have had some digital pianos through the years, and it is great to re-discover how and when this technology started many years ago.
Son-in-law looks older!!!
CJCappella Greetings, yes that is how we roll on the big island
He had a tough paper round.
Rock stars often have much younger wives. Mind you, he's not exactly giving off that Rod Stewart vibe.
Looks like the father-in-law (Robinson) is older by 8 1/2 years. His daughter is David Nixon's third wife.
@@gp414 paper route?
Steve Hackett said it best I think, and I paraphrase "It sounds like a symphony orchestra performance broadcast from Mars".
This never gets old. Thank you for posting.
3:15 ... solo section to Highway Star!
Feels like this is the true forefather to the Yamaha CVP-series of pianos. Truly incredible device this
It's the beginning of all keyboards that have auto accompaniment. The difference is that what you're hearing here is real recorded instruments.
What a delightful piece of film delivered in a most quintessentially English manner, the like of which we now rarely get to witness. A loss. David Nixon was also a regular sight on British TV, a magician
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen
I remember using these in the studio. Loved it.
Hearing this tells me I have been listening to more music made on Mellotron than I knew.
It's just amazing. There is the sound of movie music directly in my ears. 😀Thanks for sharing😍
A friends parents in high school had one of these. Fascinating instrument when you sit in front of it for the first time. George Martin and the Beatles sure made amazing use of it.
Actually, i liked more David's playing
David was rather a good magician with his own TV show when I was a youngster and apparently a bit of an entropreneur
Every single modern musician needs to understand significance of this historical instrument, period!
I remember in the late 60s as a child seeing these advertised at the music stores. Marvelous music geniuses.
Amazing video and hard to believe how far electronic keyboards have came
The 1960’s were something else 🇬🇧
The British band The Moody Blues made great use of this instrument. You could consider this, and possibly the Novachord, as predecessors to digital sampling.
I love the liveliness of fine clicking keys! Oh party on Mr. Robinson!
3:34 That smile.
Quite incredible really. Much like the electric guitar, this instrument would change 20th century music forever.
That smile at the end.
Basically, every key on the keyboard is like a PLAY button on a tape containing one instrument’s pitch, or rhythm, etc… and not surprisingly, they broke all the time. Still a very cool analog instrument.
I love how they thought this would be used to replace the orchestra when really it took on a life of its own because it sounded NOTHING like real instruments.
I doubt if Eric Robinson thought it would replace the orchestra. he was,after all, a top orchestral conductor with his own series on both radio and television
Well, to get it to sound like an orchestra you need to record an orchestra! I see this more as a sampler, or a way for a pianist to have a more full-featured backing and "play" other instruments.
But it was real instruments I bet. It wasn't a synthesizer, it was a magnetic tape sampler. But of course you could not fundamentally change anything in the tape "loop", like you could with a real instrument. In other words, limited or no modulation.
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@@michaelbauers8800 Fix that wording, you make understand something else...
Korg PA-800 of the 60's. Very amazing.
Pre Yes moody blues, king crimson, even psychedelic Beatles ..... Progressive rock .. Truly incredible. Always loved the mellotron & sitar
One of the coolest sounds created by Lennon, using the Mellotron, the bagpipe sound of Baby your a rich man, like who ever heard that sound on a top ten hit, totally mind blowing the first time I heard it on the radio!😢
That's a clavioline actually. Set on "oboe".
Brings to mind Benny Hill.
the tone on this instrument is one of a kind
Immediately took me back to old TV shows like the prisoner and danger man.
Tony Banks did a lot of interesting stuff with the Mellotron, on the early Genesis albums.
Mike pinder was the true pioneer of the mellotron in rock music of the mid to late 60's with the moody blues, before banks, fripp, wakeman et al, fact.
@@legolam4271 the moody blues used it more extensively & to greater effect, they were the true pioneers, g bond might have used it but they did not take it forward!
If I had a big enough house, I'd love to have a Mellotron, a Rhodes, and a Hammond in my studio. I have them in box, and I can play them on my controller, but I just think it'd be neat to have the real kit.
David Nixon the Magician! wow that takes me back to my childhood.
This is the equivalent to using loops in music production, lol. Still, a really cool invention.
there's a tbird in the driveway so I'm sold
basically a really primitive sampler?
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Primitive only in that it utilises audio tape and not digitised 1s and 0s.
Sample playback. Not a sampler (sample recorder) as such.
Yes, it used recording tape like on a cassette tape player.
That accordion sound is so beautiful
RIP Mike Pinder. You will not be forgotten.
Dope af
Sounds better than today's most expensive workstation keyboards
Still in production to this day! made by Streetly Electronics
You must be Eric Robinson's son/grandson then?
@@britishcomposers No Streetly was the company that actually made them. Eric Robinson was the owner of IBC studios / Mellotronics which sold Mellotrons.
John Paul Jones used the melotron to get those orchestrated sounds on Kashmir and Recorder on Stairway to heaven and other songs he was a master musician
Everyone may already know this, but in the 1970s Mattel came out with something called the Optigan. It was the poor man’s Mellotron. Instead of tapes, it used a large, semi-transparent optical disc. The disc had concentric rings of optical soundtracks, each encoded musical instruments and riffs, etc. The sound,as I recall, was not impressive. But as a kid, I still wanted one, but of course never got one. They were pricey.
Good memory. Yes, the disks where called "optical" but nothing like modern digital CD/DVD optical disks.
Actually, what the inventors did here, was actually brilliant. They literally copied the way old sound movie films (like shown in schools and such) laid down the audio.
When you look at it, you can see a jagged line, as it were. The system consisted of a little light source that would shine a light through the film (in this case "optical disk") and a light "sensor' would pick up the variations in light and an amplifier would "decode" the variations and produce sound. I believe that with this machine, there was more than 1 sensor, because a disk would contain rhythms and musical notes that would be played together. Quite ingenious for the time.
He was using more than two fingers on his Bye Bye Blue with two fingers. You can't play one fingered grace notes.
Chuck Norris can
Depends; if you're going from a black key to an adjacent (usually higher) white you can.
The keyboardist from the Moody Blues played a Mellotron.
And the Zombies too.
@@3791 never heard of the Zombies, are they any good?
And basically most of the prog rock scene bands did.
As did John Paul Jones and Tony Banks
@@marvinthemaniac7698 They were the ones who did "Time of the Season", which was very good in my opinion.
The Mellotron and the Yamaha CS-80 were the pinnacles of their time. "Is it possible" was the question... not how practical it was. Though it's funny that the time between the Mellotron and the first samplers was about 12 years... so that's like if the Mellotron was 2008 and the Synclavier was 2020.
Seeing the original Mellotron in this video, and then looking at the Electro-Harmonix Mel9 Pedal I have sitting on one of my keyboards really shows how far technology has come in the span of 60 years.
All of that technology, shrunk down to fit inside a small metal box that can turn a cheap keyboard into a Prog Rock Sound machine!
As a Mellotron/Chamberlin owner, I can say that the Mel9 pedal is not the same, but only a half decent approximation. We cannot emulate the physics of tape heads reading tapes just yet.
I kinda wish Wesley Willis could have had a go on one of these!
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"I suppose you thought you were listening to a long-playing record, just then!"
That line always gets me
Built in accompaniment.... greatest invention since the plectrum. The modern digital equivalents (like Yamaha PSR) are a joy to behold. You've got everything from a mariachi band to a full blown orchestra trapped inside the box. They never miss a beat nor play a wrong note.
Ah yes the soundtrack to every corny British made cinema from the 60's!
Don't forget the French cinema. :)))
Now I want a 60s movie soundtrack sample pack, so I can produce my own.
It'll never catch on!
So thankful for that video!!! Amazing project, the mellotron!!!
Is that David Nixon the magician, well I loved him as a kid. Didn't know about the mellotron thing, amazing.