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Mellotrons in '60s Song (Part 1) on WMBR's Lost & Found Program

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Not necessarily the first song to employ the Mellotron, but certainly the most well-known as well as the most influential, is "Strawberry Fields Forever" by a somewhat obscure band named the Beatles. The Mellotron is in essence a sampling keyboard developed in 1963, preceded a decade before by a similar instrument called the Chamberlain. Each key triggers a recording of an instrument, which produces sounds that imitate strings (the most common), woodwinds, brass, and even guitar, and can be confused with the actual instrument. These shows indicate that the Mellotron is primarily used in the '60s in psychedelic pop. This is a deep dive into those environs.

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Bob Dubrow
lost@wmbr.org
617-253-4000

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