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Pitch Axis Considered Harmful
Category: Classical, Jazz, Mathematics, Music, Science |
Tags: 12-tone, diatonic, inversion, mode, octatonic, pentatonic, pitch-axis, scale
The Melotones
I thought, from a long time ago when I first knew about my dad’s early career in music, that this band had been called the Mellotones, with two ells. Mellow Tones, of course. But there it is in the pic – just the one. Now I think it should have been pronounced /mi:lotonz/ (a rhyme with me low tones). Or perhaps after the great ancient greek hero /məlɔtəni:z/ (muh-lot-unease). The other greek hero on the right, /vəbrafəni:z/, is being played by m’dad.