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The story behind the iconic flute intro on The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever"—and the blueprint for the modern virtual instrument.

During the 1966 studio sessions, the band spent weeks experimenting with completely different sounds and arrangements. To explore these new ideas, they brought a rented Mellotron into Abbey Road Studios.

John Lennon had actually acquired one of these revolutionary new keyboards for himself a year prior. Inside the instrument, every single key physically engaged a hidden strip of analog tape playing a recording of a real acoustic instrument.

While testing the machine out in the studio, Paul McCartney used the flute setting to play the song's legendary intro melody. Today, whenever you load a virtual instrument or play a MIDI keyboard in your DAW, you are relying on that exact same audio workflow.

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Paul Mccartney
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The Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever, John Lennon
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