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BIROTRON- The 8-track Mellotron Clone
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The fascinating failure of Dave Biro's attempt at an 8-track cassette powered improvement to the Mellotron.
And some sound samples (link in the article doesn't work)
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DrexonField
nice! very cool article 
10/01/07
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Roshi
Read that...crazy.
Esp crazy there are only a few that exist
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mulletballet
now THAT is a crazy story right there.
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mlbot
IDM is dead
Birotronica is gonna be the next big thing.
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bla
biro like the pen?
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mlbot
Biro like MonoRo, only twice as good.
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mlbot
Oh man, if he did a Birotron album, he could call it:
Birophenia
it'd be a single LP, of course.
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papergoose
I would LOVE one of these.... More than a mellotron? Maybe.
or even just a good sample set...
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Danji
Aaaah Rick Wakeman....
I've got that Yes album with it all over it (in the background where you can't hear it hardly)...in fact i'm listening to it now.
...Oh dear
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jonbro
wow, that was an awesome story.
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license
great story.
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Roshi
It's also kind of crazy to think Biro dedicated so much of his life to this pursuit.
Paul Collins (author of article) is a great writer...I loved his book "Banvard's Folly" which is about historical crackpots and infamous has-beens. Not that Biro is either...
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hageir
I saw:
BITTRON - THE 8-BIT Mellotron Clone
DAAAAAAAMN!
that would be soooo cool
©®™
COPYRIGHT 2007 - Geir Helgi Birgisson
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papergoose
hageir said: "I saw:
BITTRON - THE 8-BIT Mellotron Clone
DAAAAAAAMN!
that would be soooo cool
©®™
COPYRIGHT 2007 - Geir Helgi Birgisson"
HELL YES IT WOULD BE.
someone make this!
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cacealian
The sound samples page is a hilarious read.
"Imagine you've just heard that your entire family has been killed in a Bizarre Toileting Accident, that your puppy had just been caught in a food processor, that Yamaha were bringing out the DX7 again and that Michael Bolton was planning another tour. How sad would this make you feel?
Probably sad enough to want to listen this miserable new sound."
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