Solina V history

- [Presenter] Back in the day, in order to have strings, … you had to hire a full orchestra. … It was pretty impractical for studios … to hire a small orchestra, … except for the most prominent artists. … So the stage was set for an instrument … that would help fill these needs. … Harry Chamberlin was one of the first people … to attempt to solve this problem. … He aimed to trigger strips of magnetic recording tape … from an organ-style keyboard. … His first device played back pre-recorded drum loops, … and he followed this with a series of keyboards … that would play tapes of various orchestral instruments. … The age of samplers began with analog tapes. … A bit of competition led to an overlap … between the Chamberlin products … and the younger cousins, the Mellotrons. … In the mid-1960s, Ken Freeman saw firsthand … the need for an instrument to help him … reproduce the string arrangements … of popular music when his band played live shows. … But a Mellotron was out of the question for various reasons. …