• The Birotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument designed as a successor to the similar Mellotron, and financed by Rick Wakeman. The Birotron was...
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  • synthesiser which he said was used mainly for "soloing and filling", and the Birotron, a tape replay keyboard which he had co-funded during its development and...
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  • Charles Wuorinen – Time's Encomium (1969) Iannis Xenakis – Persepolis (1971) Birotron (1974), Dave Biro Buchla 100 and 200 serie (1960s–70s), Buchla Lightning...
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    Stereo-Pak Album era Timeline of audio formats Sound recording and reproduction Birotron TelePro Cartridge Patent Fails, Billboard vol. 79, No. 27, 8 July 1967...
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    as one of the group's best. Tormato (1978) features Wakeman playing a Birotron, a tape replay keyboard that used 8-track tape cartridges and contributed...
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  • Harpsichord, Minimoog, grand piano, Mellotron, synthesizer, organ, polymoog, birotron Patrick Moraz – piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, Minimoog, Mellotron...
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  • Electronics 8 Voice polyphonic synth, twin keyboard Mellotron Mark V, Birotron B90, ARP Instruments Digital Soloist synth, Moog synthesizer & Projekt...
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    runs longer than eight minutes. Wakeman replaced his Mellotrons with the Birotron, a tape replay keyboard, and Squire experimented with harmonisers and Mu-tron...
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  • of other "orchestral" instruments like the Mellotron, Orchestron, and Birotron.[citation needed] "The Gizmotron is the strangest guitar device you've...
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  • Jon Anderson – lead vocals Steve Howe – guitar Rick Wakeman – polymoog, birotron Chris Squire – piano, bass guitar, backing vocals Alan White – drums Welch...
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  • Grey Rooms" – 3:58 Joni Mitchell – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, Birotron on 6, oboe on 8, Omnichord on 8 Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone on 3...
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  • guitar-oriented sound than previous releases. It is also the last album on which the Birotron, the rarest of tape loop keyboard instruments, was played by Wuest. The...
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    professional-sounding version of the same technology. It was used by Patrick Moraz. The Birotron was a similar concept based around 8-track cartridges, used by Wakeman...
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  • thumps were addressed in another Mellotron related instrument called a Birotron. An estimated 40 Orchestrons still exist today, and replacement discs and...
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  • .an ideal opportunity to hear the rarest tape-replay instrument", the Birotron. The track White Cloud was included on the Sky Records collection Schwingungen...
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  • only album not to feature tape loop instruments: the mellotron and the Birotron. Salterbarty Tales has been described as "impossible to find" by Earthstar...
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  • grand piano, Minimoog synthesiser, Polymoog synthesiser, Hammond C3 organ, Birotron, Mander pipe organ at St. Martin's church in Vevey, RMI computer keyboard...
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    also notable for Craig Wuest's heavy use of the Mellotron and the rare Birotron, a variation on the Mellotron that can sustain notes beyond eight seconds...
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    period. Wuest is also notable for his heavy use of the mellotron and the Birotron, a very rare tape loop instrument which could sustain notes beyond eight...
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  • three albums on which Wuest made heavy use of the Mellotron and the rare Birotron, a variation on the Mellotron that can sustain notes beyond eight seconds...
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