Today, we’re honoring one of the great, pre-digital age instruments with the Top 10 Mellotron Songs. In an era in which you can recreate almost any sound on a laptop or smart phone, the Mellotron ...

"It is an iconic part of so much pop and rock music, but it's also an instrument that's yet to be fully explored," says jazz keyboardist John Medeski. The way Medeski uses the instrument might sound ...

A musical whim in Memphis has turned into a full-blown all-star project called Mellotron Variations. By Gary Graff A musical whim in Memphis has turned into a full-blown all-star project called ...

We've never had an original Mellotron at the Tiny Desk until now. Much like a Hammond organ, it's big, heavy and fragile. When they fired it up, with all its mechanical gears turning tape loops and ...

But in the spirit of the times, the group soldiered on with a forward-looking sound, aided by new blood and new songs. Their November 1967 album "Days of Futures Past" pioneered this entirely new ...

Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody Blues The last surviving original member of the Moody Blues, Mike Pinder, who has died aged 82, ...

It would seem that whenever a Mellotron comes up in conversation, a history lesson ensues. The experienced keyboard aficionado knows the legend, yet for the newcomers, there is continued fascination ...

Of course everyone knows what a Mellotron is (no, everyone doesn't), but allow us to briefly explain anyway. The Mellotron is a keyboard hooked up to analog tape — press a key and the instrument plays ...

Though initially conceived as 'The Chamberlin' by American Harry Chamberlin, there's something entirely British about the Mellotron. Indeed, the first instrument to carry the name was British born, a ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrXtmKGkSa4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1] BBG found this great video the Mellotron, a tape-based synthesizer that was ...

Mike Walters is a musical hardware hacking genius. He built an arm-keyboard for Devo. And a whole bunch of other sound-tastic gadgets that are impossibly beautiful. His latest is this Mellotron ...