Mellotron

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

5

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Mellotron”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Buzz Andersen from San Francisco, California, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.