Cardiacs Mellotron parts on the Mellotron that was used by Cardiacs

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Cardiacs Mellotron parts on the Mellotron that was used by Cardiacs

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2 жыл бұрын

Uploaded here as requested by a few of the folks over on the Cardiacs Facebook group.
This is the exact Mellotron M400 Tim Smith used for the Whole World Window album (of which he sampled for future Cardiacs albums) so it only felt right to put this video together. Even if somewhat rough, it’s one I’ve been meaning to do for years!
And a bit of side note trivia. This used to be owned by Adrian Wagner, then Martin Orford of IQ (and it was at this time that Tim borrowed the thing to record), before being sold onto Clive Nolan of Arena/Pendragon and living at Thin Ice Studios where it was in the company of everyone from DragonForce to Threshold to Ayreon before good timing and an incredibly lucky heads up from a close friend lead to it ending up in the land of KYROS / Old Street Studios.
Serial number 1713 for you Mellotron nerds out there. 🤓

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@augustjschroeder 2 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD IT WAS A MELLOTRON ALL ALONG!! I've been trying to figure out what keyboard they used on all those songs, feels so obvious now. Thank you so much!!

@rot_studios 2 жыл бұрын

SAME. I loved the ethereal-sounding choir/string sounds on that album and was eager to learn what keyboard they used. Makes so much sense in hindsight yeah :P

@CrankyRayy Жыл бұрын

@@rot_studios yeah mellotron choirs sound way better than actual choirs for some reason lol, sounds a bit more alieny

@regmtait100 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! This is a treasure and such an important part of Cardiacs history.

@Zyborggian 6 ай бұрын

This was probably the mellotron used on Tales from the Lush Attic which is damn near the greatest album ever made uwu I wish Martin would come back to composing music :( :( Also RIP Tim

@pastorpresent7774 4 ай бұрын

That mellotron inner working footage was brilliant, thank you.

@TheRomanScreamroadOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

It's incredible. An instrument with a lot of history and I just happened to find this video on the internet and saw what made the sounds in my all time favorite songs!

@Poppyscaps 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the demonstration! I LOVE the sound of that thing, particularly on In A City Lining… it’s like a choir of android angels 😍

@kohlemainen 2 ай бұрын

Oh man. This is nice. Thank you.

@jasonshort1437 2 жыл бұрын

Oh dear lord... So beautiful. Put that thing in a museum!

@RaBob 8 ай бұрын

or better, keep it working like it is being cared for, and keep putting it in more new recordings

@kimjalh99 2 жыл бұрын

This awesome Shelby. Especially love the last bit seeing the inner workings. Thanks for posting

@paulchaplin73 7 ай бұрын

I love the Mellotron. “Whole World Window” intro/outro is just stunning! Beautifully played too! 😮

@RaBob Жыл бұрын

Love the shot of how the Mellotron works from 3:54

@LordoftheBadgers 6 ай бұрын

Is it just mud that breaks the whole world window?

@neutralearth1061 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the incredible Mellotron history! We have M400 Mellotron (s/n 489) and still use it as often as possible in or recordings. (Found on our KZfaq channel) My Mellotron was owned by Mark Dahlgren who played it on the rare Albatross album, and it's on the Violent Femmes album Rock!!!!! (played by Sigmund Snopek. I had sold it to Sigmund and later bought it back from him.)

@rot_studios 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing this wonderfully sounding piece of history. Tim made real good use of the Mellotron on that album for sure.

@TheFlenen Жыл бұрын

Laudation!

@pauljohnson7461 Жыл бұрын

I could watch this all day. In fact, I might. Thank you.

@colinmainwaring9471 2 жыл бұрын

Its really good. An insight into brilliance.

@Zappafantrust Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for the video !

@TheFierceAndTheDead 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent stuff, hope you're good Shelby

@VoidEon 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@Anya-ip6fd 10 ай бұрын

Incredible

@jaaa935 Жыл бұрын

Please post some full mellotron instrumentals! I would love to play along on my guitar

@stooperduck Жыл бұрын

holy shit that provenance is incredible. great to see this btw!

@meursault7030 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this

@mathphew 2 жыл бұрын

So cool 🔥🔥🔥

@herm574 2 жыл бұрын

Woah! Right on!

@john-mills-99 2 жыл бұрын

More cardiacs content pls!

@jonnymiskatonic Жыл бұрын

More please!

@jimbdowd6131 Жыл бұрын

HereIsShelby, Thank you so much!!.. that was epic.. really well-played and with an understandable passion ....loving the air drums!.. such a cool video.. not to mention showing us the mellotrons under-carriage.!! Pure filth! I didn't discover the Cardiacs until about 10 years ago and I'm still feeling like 'Whhhy!? why the fuck did nobody tell me about this band sooner! '

@Kobayashi704 9 ай бұрын

Nice!

@renottoner6120 2 жыл бұрын

WOW

@sicko_the_ew Жыл бұрын

Looking at the end makes me wonder if the "simple chords story" is true. (That Tim just used major and minor triads). Visually, what I'm seeing is triads running up the tapes, but connecting together for brief "fancy chords" - maybe - at each change - with a minimum of four notes appearing briefly, and sometimes five. So maybe it's more a case of "fancy chords used sparingly"? (So made more special by their brevity.) This is just a guess/ hunch/ ignorant question raised by seeing how many notes are climbing their vines at a time, that's all.