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From: Don Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Megan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Portraits...NJC
>
> --- Megan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Don,
> > What appeared to me to @ first be a flute on track
> > one , is, after several listenings, a synthesizer?
>
> Actually, the entire album was composed on, performed
> on and produced with synths, my aresenal of which
> includes:
>
> Yamaha DS540 -- (provides acoustic instrument mimicks
> throughout, including the piano, drum kit, Bass viol
> and the trumpet on "The Good King", the viola and
> cello on "Jeanette", French horn on the title cut, the
> solo violins on "Silent Night", recorders and oboes on
> "The Angel" and "Carol of the Winds")
>
> Kawai K1II -- (the airy bottles on "Carol of the
> Winds", the "Lunar Flute" patch on the title cut, the
> sparkling twinkles on "The Angel ..." and the string
> ensemble on "Homecoming.")
>
> Moog Opus 3 -- (bass reinforcements on "The Angel
> ...")
>
> Sorry to have left all that off the liner notes, and
> hope this enlightens a bit ... again, I can not thank
> you enough for your kind words. All the best.
>
> Don Rowe
>
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Hi Don,
Thank YOU for sharing your amazing talent with the rest of us, as I'm
assuming I'm not the first JMDLer to have checked you out. And from what
I've seen of the Jonifests, there's alot of talented JMDLer's among
us.Thanks also for explaining about the above synth tracks-it's amazing how
you did it!I remember my brother Steve(the keyboard player) playing around
with the original Moog's in the early '70's, but nothing as intricate as
this.He's 50 & basically sticks to piano only now,oh but what fun he would
have had with that Yamaha of yours, especially since Keith Emerson(ELP) was
one of his idols.But he still has his old Hammond portable with the Leslie
tone cabinet( last vestiges of days gone by) I'll be sending my other copy
of "Portraits" to him this week as a belated Christmas present.I'm sure
he'll love it. Anyway, I highly recommend this CD to all of you guys out
there, I give it my ***** star rating!
Enjoy the "Season",
Megan :~)
