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		Another major difference between the Mellotron and the Orchestron is that there isn’t any friction or actual mechanical action between the keyboard and the sound source which means that you can play extremely fast runs on the Orchestron which is more or less impossible on the Mellotron.
		When comparing the Orchestron with the Mellotron the sounds are more pad like and one big difference is that where the Mellotron has tape-hiss, the Orchestron has vinyl crackles and pops.
		My Orchestron is a Model A which is also weird as there are no pictures of a Model A. My Model A looks exactly like a Model B but with “ unlimited “ pitching possibilities.
	www.roth-handle.nu /instruments/replay_vako_orchestron.html (1177 words)

	Optigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Intended for professional use as an alternative to the Mellotron, the Orchestron featured improved recorded sounds over the Optigan.
		While the same fidelity limitations of the Optigan applied to the Orchestron, these instruments were built to be more reliable and were used successfully in commercial recordings.
		The Orchestron is also listed as part of the equipment used in the tour of the band Rainbow that resulted in their 1977 live album Rainbow on Stage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Optigan (1615 words)

	Orchestron
		Primarily created by Opsonar, the Orchestron was an attempt at improving the Optigan, and it was intended to be used by professionnal musicians.
		Compared to the Optigan, the Orchestron was more solid (it was made of wood instead of plastic) and more reliable, although it used the same system (optical scanning of celluloid discs).
		Thus, its sound was as poor as the Optigan's, and it couldn't compare with its main competitor, the Mellotron.
	egrefin.free.fr /eng/mellotron/orchestronE.php (191 words)

	Radio-Activity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All the music was written by Hütter/Schneider, with Emil Schult collaborating on lyrics, and designing the artwork – an illustration of a late-1930s Deutscher Kleinempfänger vintage radio.
		This was the first Kraftwerk album to feature use of the distinctive Vako Orchestron keyboard (choir, string and organ sounds), which they had purchased on their recent US Autobahn tour.
		The band's custom-built electronic percussion also features heavily in the sound, and extensive use is made of the vocoder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio-Activity (350 words)

	Jean Shepherd: The Village Voice Years - 09/26/56
		He was seated near an outlet for the Orchestron, and the mood-music it created added to the sleepy mood he was in.
		His earliest recollections of music were connected with LP's and tapes and some of the later film-methods of recording live musicians in studios, but he had never actually seen or heard one in the flesh.
		And since the RCA people had come up with the first Orchestrons that did away with the musicians themselves, the whole business of music had taken a turn for the better.
	www.keyflux.com /shep/092656.htm (826 words)

	Vako Orchestron
		No doubt many prog-rock keyboardists of the time tried one out as a possible replacement for their Mellotrons but it was probably a combination of poor sound quality, reliability issues and high price ($5,000) that put people off investing in an almost unknown instrument from an equally unknown company.
		It is said that Florian Schneider of Teutonic synth meisters, Kraftwerk, purchased an Orchestron in the USA during the 'Autobahn' tour and this was subsequently used on 'Radio-Activity' and 'Trans-Europe Express'.
		The Orchestron patches in Nostalgia can only give a taste of the original but no attempt has been made to disguise their 'scratchy' nature and they are rather nice sounds in a lo-fi kind of way.
	www.hollowsun.com /vintage/orchestron/index.html (534 words)

	Optigan's Long Lost Cousins!
		The Orchestron was originally developed by Opsonar around the time that the Optigan was on its death bed.
		Technically, the Orchestron was a much more reliable instrument than the Optigan, but the sound more or less remained just as crappy, so it never really flew.
		The Orchestron works on a different principal- the notes are arranged so that each tone is neighbored by a fourth or a fifth.
	www.optigan.com /cousins.html (1831 words)

	The Dead media Project:Working Notes:08.2
		Dead medium: the Optigan, the Opsonar, the Orchestron; the Mellotron, the Chamberlin
		But the design remained the same, and its inherent problems forced the Miner company to drop the machine as well.
		Later, the technology was bought by a company called Vako which made an instrument called the Orchestron.
	www.deadmedia.org /notes/8/082.html (1045 words)

	Parasol Records : Labels : A Hidden Agenda Record : AK-Momo - Return To N.Y.
		Composed entirely on creaky vintage electronics optigon, mellotron and orchestron this collection of songs has a singular quality of weird beauty.
		The title and frequent New York references, however, are a little misleading given vocalist Anna Karin von Malmborg and multi-instrumentalist Mattias Olsson hail from Stockholm, Sweden.
		One might wonder why this idea didn´t surface earlier but I think that it has a lot to do with vocal textures and fitting other sounds around the Optigan.
	www.parasol.com /labels/hiddenagenda/aha071.asp (1083 words)

	Re: Keyboards on "Everybody's Song"
		The mellotron (or orchestron?) at > > > the beginning of the track also makes me think "Moraz".
		I guess, with the lack of tapes and mechanism, an orchestron was more reliable?
		What are the pluses and minuses of an orchestron as compared to a mellotron or birotron?
	www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/alt.music.yes/messages/457494.html (372 words)

	Optiganally Yours: Exclusively Talentmaker! - PopMatters Music Review
		Crow sings in an agreeable, Beatlesque tenor, and the songs are not at all without appeal, among my favorites being the evocative "Held," and the instrumental "Guitar Song." The songwriting here is clever, too much so for its own good in a very They Might Be Giants way by at least two-fifths.
		But, the sounds of the Valko Orchestron (doesn't that sound like the name of someone who should be fighting Barbarella?) and the Chilton Talentmaker (which sounds like a con man a la The Music Man) are just not enough to carry an album to my ears.
		It sounds like a couple of creative teenagers snuck into the marina before the big debutante dinner, and had their way with the instruments (because they weren't going to be having any way with the debutantes).
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/o/optiganallyyours-exclusively.shtml (483 words)

	CD Baby: AK-MOMO: Return to N.Y
		A weird, quirky and scary pop album recorded using only the optigan, orchestron, mellotron and female lead vocals.
		Written and recorded in only six days, Return to New York is surreal sonic excursion in atmospheres reminiscent of Tim Burton, Les Baxter and Edward Gorey.
		Recorded using only three antique keyboard instruments, Optigan, Orchestron and the Mellotron.
	cdbaby.com /cd/akmomo (272 words)

	Planet Mellotron Album Reviews: A1
		Several tracks also feature Orchestron and/or Optigan, just to heavily confuse the issue, as if it needed confusing at this stage.
		It works on the same basis as the more professional Orchestron, as used by Kraftwerk, Rainbow etc. (which, funnily enough, is also in Mr.Olsson's keyboard arsenal), although it's far more low-fi.
		In fact, the Orchestron and Mellotron are the only other instruments on Return to N.Y., giving the whole thing a scratchy, almost grimy feel.
	www.planetmellotron.com /reva1.htm (3982 words)

	YouTube - Cirrus Winery play the Orchestron Cello
		They were given the full tour of the Studio trying out different Mellotron sounds, Chamberlin Rhythmate, Electric sitars, Optigans and Orchestrons.
		They have their own Mellotron MKVI built by Markus Resch so it is always interesting to hear and try out new sounds.
		The films are quite short as the camera is mostly for still photography and the sound is recorded merely through the dodgy internal microphone but I hope you´ll enjoy it anyway.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=dHiYpiBn8SE (214 words)

	Alien Artichokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At our new and improved camp we contacted the mothership and helped to rid the world of the toxic influence of Don Henley and other minions of the dark lords Starsky and Hutch and their evil master, Andrew Lloyd Webber.
		Our tools of sonic communication included: the renowned Orchestron V (also seen at bman 97-99), the new bell tower, a thermionic theremin, and an ætheric wind harp capable of channeling messages from the Artichokes to our ears.
		The Muons' alien folk music and our machines of ætheric communication, including the now famous Orchestron VII and thermionic valve theremin, help us to win this holy war against the anti-artichoke forces.
	www.mods.com /artichoke (2277 words)

	The Kraftwerk FAQ - Equipment
		Kraftwerk were provided with one of these by the manufacturer well in advance of the instrument's official public release.
		Initially they owned a single-manual Orchestron, but later, they obtained another one with two keyboards; this one was used until the first half of their 1981 tour when it was replaced by a second Moog Polymoog synthesiser.
		The Orchestron was used for choir and strings sounds on a number of other songs by Kraftwerk, for example Radioland, Franz Schubert and Showroom Dummies.
	kraftwerk.hu /faq/equipment.html (1857 words)

	4eigner.net The Foreigner Website: The Band: Interviews: "Al Greenwood topping the charts with Foreigner" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Al Greenwood: When I first got into Foreigner I had a Hammond L-100 and an EML 101 synthesizer, and I think I had an Orchestron, but that's all been changed.
		But the main reason I used it was that it just happened to be there.
		I used the voice disc from the Orchestron.
	www.4eigner.net /theband/197904coke-algreenwood.html (4729 words)

	E X E R G Y - info
		Sångerskan AK von Malmborg och musikern Mattias Olsson plockar enkla coolhetspoäng genom att enbart tillåta hädangångna klaviaturinstrument som mellotron, optigan och orchestron.
		Bandets egen referens heter Tim Burton och med sextitalsfavoriterna optigan, orchestron och mellotron –; dåtidens ”samplers”- som ljudarrangörer låter hela den knastriga inspelningen som gränslandet mellan sömn och vaket.
		De två bygger sin musik runt de gamla keyboardinstrumenten optigan, mellotron och orchestron i samplad form från inspelningar gjorda under 50- och 60-talen med von Malmborgs väna röst över.
	www.exergy-music.se /resentionak.htm (634 words)

	Moog Music Forum :: View topic - !Not Moog related question! How do they make vocal sounds?
		The choir sounds were all from a Vako Orchestron.
		He mentiond the Orchestron and said he liked to put in the disks backwards so that it made sucking sounds.
		I think an instrument called the Optigan was the home version of the Orchestron.
	www.moogmusic.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=407&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 (792 words)

	GEPR List of Progressive Rock Instruments
		The Vako Orchestron is an instrument which was meant to replace the Mellotron.
		The most famous use of the Orchestron was on the Relayer album by Yes, played by Patrick Moraz and his subsequent solo album, The Story of i.
		This is almost certainly the particular Orchestron designed for Moraz.
	www.gepr.net /proginst.html (6092 words)

	Guest using - Creative Sampling.com
		A couple of other companies saw the potential of the Optigan and designed improved copies of it.
		These included the Vako Orchestron and The Chiltern Talentmaker.
		The Orchestron apparently sounded just as poor as the original Optigan and the talentmaker was forced out of production by the producers of the Orchestron claiming patenting breaches.
	www.creativesampling.com /articles/samplinghistory/page2.php (884 words)

	john vanderslice: pixel revolt credits
		matt cunitz: celeste, orchestron choir, pump organ, hohner claviola
		matt henry cunitz: orchestron cello, celeste, mellotron vibes
		matt cunitz: bass, hammond B3, piano, orchestron choir
	www.johnvanderslice.com /html/pixel_credits.html (179 words)

	SHOPtigan!
		Actual copies of the service manual alone go for BIG BUCKS if you can find them at all (if you think Optigans are hard to come by, try finding a copy of the service manual!) so at $25 this disc is a real bargain.
		The CD-ROM is in Akai format, which is the most widely compatible sampler format.
		Included on the CD-ROM are all of the chord loop sets for all of the Optigan and Talentmaker discs, and all of the keyboard scales for the Optigan, Orchestron and Talentmaker.
	www.optigan.com /shoptigan.html (799 words)

	Sparklehorse: Organs and Keyboards
		After Mattel discontinued Optigan production, a subsidiary company, Vako, launched its own sucessor, the Orchestron.
		Abandoning the campy sing-a-long home market of the Optigan, the Orchestron was aimed at more professional users.
		Although many of the Optigan's flaws were ironed out, the Orchestron fared little better than its predecessor commercially.
	www.sparklehorse.org /organs.html (797 words)

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	Rob Burger / An Interview
		To wit, Lost Photograph, a droll, fanciful menagerie of found and retro sounds whose fluid, playful soulfulness mark a brilliantly cohesive but unobtrusively conceived effort, commissioned by John Zorn for Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture Series.
		Long Island native and multi-instrumentalist Rob Burger (accordion, piano, toy and prepared pianos, claviola, celeste, Hammond S-6 organ, pump organ, bass harmonica, glockenspiel, Indian banjo, chamberlin, orchestron, marxophone, Casio keyboard, shortwave radio, music boxes) has played with Tin Hat Trio, Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Susana Baca and Norah Jones, among others.
		On Lost Photograph he heads a trio whose fluent rhythm section comprises bassist Greg Cohen (Lou Reed, Tom Waits, John Zorn) and drummer Kenny Wollesen (Frisell, Norah Jones, John Zorn).
	www.rootsworld.com /interview/burger.html (3110 words)

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