>>Apparently Shaeffer's work lead directly to the 
Mellotron,arguably the first commercial looping device 
<http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/mc.html#phono> 
no. mellotrons have tape in them, but not in loops. the mellotron is best thought of as a replay-only sampler.
duncan/r.m.i
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