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"...an unusual electro-mechanical keyboard instrument...
The use of cool or weird sound effects by the Pumpkins includes this crazy instrument,
the mellotron. It's been around since the sixties, and is very rare and hard to find
(hence the "very rich or daft bands" reference above).
As seen on vieuphoria, the mellotron produces orchestral sounds (not screaming voices. sorry).
Some notable examples of it's use in
Smashing Pumpkins music: "Spaceboy", "Tear", "The Last Song" and "Infinite Sadness."
There are others, I just can't think of them at the moment...
Contrary to what some people believe, there is NO mellotron used on
the songs "Disarm" and "Luna", and only the demo version of "Tonight Tonight"
actually used mellotron. Also some people have asked me to write out piano scores for mellotron
parts; this is a reasonable request but I think you'd be better off just looking at a good 'ole
guitar tab to provide you with chords. Most mellotron parts are chords anyway.
Thanks to www.waltonnaze.demon.co.uk/onions/tron.html for some of the information on this page.
MORE INFO ON MELLOTRON
Mellotron Archives UK
..restricted to the recording studio and a few very rich or very daft bands."
Don Tillman's Web Page
Mellotrons, Chamberlins &: their sounds
Norman Leete's Mellotron Page