EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 32, Number 1 This issue's topics: Music Search (2 messages) Going price for a Mellotron? (3 messages) New Frequently Asked Questions in progress books about synthesis Software recommendations Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1991 13:16:01 -0400 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Jarrod Norton Subject: Music Search Well, my efforts to find those unsigned bands have been less than overwhelmingly successful up to this point. Two people have expressed interest and I got material from one. Not enough for a feature show, alas. So, here we go again... WCLH MUSIC SEARCH, ROUND II If you or anyone you know has created unsigned music (electronic or non... because I'd like to feature both...) that you would like to have featured on the air, send either cassette or 1/4" reel tape (at 3-3/4,7-1/2,or 15)-- preferably 7-1/2 IPS, to this address: WCLH-FM Wilkes University P.O.Box 111 Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Attn: PRODUCTION director ---------- Or if you need to make other arrangements call 717/825-7663 or 717/823-9833 please send a bio or some info with your material. Thanks! I will be compiling a directory of the people who responded... if you would like to be included, please send also your SnailMail address and phone #. If not, Just Say No. au revoir jnorton@wilkes1.wilkes.edu Jarrod Norton, Production, WCLH-FM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1991 21:09:00 EST From: ROTHBART@ITHACA.BITNET Subject: Re: Music Search Are you aware of SEAMUS? The Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States? We are a national organization of copmposers and sponsor a wisde range of activities, including conferences, recordings and newsletters. I'm the editor of the SEAMUS Newsletter and would bne happy to publish your requests with your permission. Additionally, our national conference is coming up in Illinois mid-October. Would you like to pass information along to me to present to the membership. We are also in the process of putting together tapes of electroacoustic pieces for radio airplay. Would you like a regular source of new music? Most of our stuff is definitely NOT pop, mostly avant garde and modern but we are a fairly reputable group. Let me know oyour thoughts. Peter Rothbart, Director, EMS, Ithaca College School of Music, Ithaca, NY. Phone is 607-274-3171. Direct EMAIL is Rothbart@Ithaca.bit. Later ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1991 22:47:00 -0500 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: "Michael F. Roszkowski" Subject: Going price for a Mellotron? Hi. I hope this question is acceptable fodder for EMUSIC-L. I've just about decided to purchase a Mellotron. I went to look at it and it seems to work just fine. Has that great distinctive, familiar sound. It's an earlier model, somewhat noisy, with three "voices" on the tape strips (violin, flute, and brass, I think). There are only a couple of controls -- pitch, tone, voice select, etc. I was amazed to find one that had all those moving parts still moving... Anyway, my question is: does anyone have a feel for the resale value of a Mellotron? The "nostalga" value is quite high, but if I find I can't really make use of this dinosaur, I'd like to know that I could get what I paid for it. Please reply by email to mfr@joiner.com. Thanks very much! Mike Roszkowski ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1991 15:34:46 EDT Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: "D. Yuen" Subject: Re: Going price for a Mellotron? In my area Philadelphia a guy sold one for $899.00. I talked to his wife and I was unable to find out what model it was beyond it was made around 1980. The owner had had it restored, and also had bought a new tape for it which I was told had four voices on it. Choir, stings, flutes, and ...??? She wasn't sure. According to the person I talked to they never had any problems with springs exploding etc. She did say they had those mechanisms retensioned etc. (spring movements) I have no idea where they got service for it, or where the NEW tape came from. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1991 17:23:36 -0700 From: Tom Erbe Subject: Re: Mellotrons A related question.... has anyone seen mellotron samples for sale anywhere? Tom Erbe * Technical Director * Center for Contemporary Music * Mills College tom@mills.edu * PO Box 9201, Oakland, CA 94613 * (415) 430-2191 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1991 03:37:34 GMT From: David Datta Subject: New Frequently Asked Questions in progress I will create a new Frequently Asked Questions file (FAQ), this time with common questions and answers. The existing FAQ is a guideline for posting in rec.music.* groups and has archives information and is posted in rec.music.misc and rec.music.cd. The new file will be posted in whatever groups are mentioned. If you notice questions and answers that are continually asked every few months, it is most likely something that should be in the new FAQ. So, please send FAQ Questions and Answers to me, datta@vacs.uwp.edu and I will put together the file. - Thanks in advance. -- -Dave datta@vacs.uwp.edu. Computers are a figment of my imagination. No-one can prove otherwise. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1991 15:21:45 GMT From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: books about synthesis Does anybody know a good book about the various synthesis techniques that are (and were) used in synthesizers and el. music? -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete') ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1991 18:13:25 -0400 From: Thomas Arnold Subject: Software recommendations I am in need of some software for doing transcriptions. I am not very knowledgable on music, my mother has the degree, but I know computers... Anyway, we have tried Songwrite and have also tried the demo for Music Printer Plus. Neither of them seem to be "just right". I am using a 386-33 with Music Quest 16-S midi card ( MPU-401 compat ). For now a Casio CT-460 ( yeeuch!! ) but I am looking at a Roland velocity sensitive keyboard ( CR-2?? something along those lines, just the keyboard no sound ) and the Roland CM-32L. What we need to be able to do is be able to play in music and transcribe then print out music for different instruments for our local orchestra. As far as the CM-32L, I would also need software that could handle it as well as several old Sequencial Circuits machines and the odd Moog floating around the house. Any suggestions or helpfull hints would be appriciated. -t.arnold arnoldt@cebafi.cebaf.gov ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************