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Re: Mellotron -

On Oct 30, 2004, at 9:35, samba * wrote:

>  I've had correspondance w/ someone who knows Terry Riley and asked 
> him.Riley says he can't remember the name of the engineer,but that he 
> was employed by RTF .This is significant ,as RTF employed  Pierre 
> Shaefer when he did his looping experiments in the 40s.

Very interesting! The other week I was just reading about Reiley's 
early experimenting and I noted the reference to "an anonymous 
engineer" who inspired Terry for the "Time Lag Accumulator". So that 
guy may have been Shaefer!

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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