It’s a keyboard that uses strings of tapes for each note. It pulls the tape over a head and plays that note until the tape runs out. When you’re playing fast, sometimes the tape isn’t all the way down, so it makes everything sound super custom.
Think Strawberry Fields by the Beatles. That’s a Mellotron you’re hearing.
I found this on it. I find the last sentence comical:
“Called the Cat-Mew, it was designed to scare little rodents away from your premises, by letting out a meow ten times a minute. If you were in a home that didn’t allow pets, then it would seem like the perfect solution without laying down poison. If it even worked. Which it probably didn’t. Hence why it’s not around today.”
I can’t find any videos of it, but I did find one very strange video that has that picture in it. I’d really like to know how this works and what it sounds like.
I just about lost my mind earlier out of frustration for this. I love listening to rap/hip hop and the algorithm makes multiple mixes with the exact same songs every time.
I just typed in “underground” in search and found so much good shit. Not even all rap. There’s all sorts of great music I have never heard!