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Re: Mellotron -

Richard Zvonar wrote:

> Terry Riley and Jon Hassell both "invented" looping for themselves in 
> the late 1950s. The RTF engineer who worked with Terry was responsible 
> for the dual-deck technique that Terry then dubbed the "time-lag 
> accumulator." This was later adopted by Brian Eno (among many others) 
> and re-named "Frippertronics" by Robert Fripp.

Jon Hassell? I didn't think he used electronic equipment
until the '70s and when he started doing it with Eno, he was
using a sampler.


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