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Saw MMW a long while back and now I'm wondering if the thing I thought was a wurlitzer was maybe a mellotron -- standup piano with a big rotating cylinder on th
by UncleEntity 8y ago
Saw MMW a long while back and now I'm wondering if the thing I thought was a wurlitzer was maybe a mellotron -- standup piano with a big rotating cylinder on the top?
- luma 8y agoThe rotating cylinder may have been a Leslie speaker which were pretty commonly paired w/ Wurlitzers, Hammonds, Farfisas, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker
- matt_the_bass 8y agoI’ve seen MMW a number of times. John usually plays an organ with Leslie speaker. He’ll sometimes sit the mellotron on top of the organ. I’ve also seen him put a clavanet on top. Often he’ll have a piano of some sort next to him too, either acoustic or electric like a Rhodes. I’ve also seen him play with a tack head upright piano. That was a pretty cool sound.