Oh, and another potentially useful discovery, made by the excellent engineer I was working with, Robin Buyer, is that ribbon mics are the way to go with melodica. He told me this type of mic is often used for brass because it helps keep the very high overtones under control. The whole album was recorded with just one ribbon mic centered a few inches from the instrument body and two room mics (I don’t remember the kind, but I don’t think it was all that important). In my experience the pickup built into the 44H* models does not sound that good, so we didn’t use that at all in this recording.