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Post subject: Re: Fender Rhodes
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 10:01 pm
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Post subject: Re: Fender Rhodes
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:15 am
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My god, why did Fender ever STOP making the Fender Rhodes?! It it is to electric piano what the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision and Jazz Bass are to electric guitar and electric bass!


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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 4:14 pm
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Hwy9 wrote:
My god, why did Fender ever STOP making the Fender Rhodes?! It it is to electric piano what the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision and Jazz Bass are to electric guitar and electric bass!

In the dying days of CBS Fender, Bill Schultz bought the brand, closed production down and sold the brand to Roland/Boss.
As for what Rhodes is to Electric piano history, I'd still say that Wurlitzers were the most influential.
These days, many keyboards have pretty good Rhodes (and Wurli) emulations. Nord, in particular.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Rhodes
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:58 pm
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arth1 wrote:
Hwy9 wrote:
My god, why did Fender ever STOP making the Fender Rhodes?! It it is to electric piano what the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision and Jazz Bass are to electric guitar and electric bass!

In the dying days of CBS Fender, Bill Schultz bought the brand, closed production down and sold the brand to Roland/Boss.
As for what Rhodes is to Electric piano history, I'd still say that Wurlitzers were the most influential.
These days, many keyboards have pretty good Rhodes (and Wurli) emulations. Nord, in particular.


Not that I'm any great shakes as a keyboard player (or guitarist or drummer for that matter) , but arth1's last line strikes home for me....at 17 Years old a Marshall stack is cool, along with a Hammond B3 with 2 Leslies, a Rhodes, a double bass set of Ludwigs....all cool to have on stage; but a few years down the road when your back and legs are going out from loading and hauling and unloading and carrying up studio stairs and stages, performing---tearing down, loading back up, hauling again and unloading again at home......times however many gigs or recordings you do........a Nord or a light Synth with a decent Piano patch is like heaven....and I really don't believe the vast majority of listeners knows or cares about the difference between a 'real" Hammond or Rhodes sound and a Nord or a synth.
Just my 1cent's worth....but the day I stopped hauling my Rhodes 88 around was a happy day indeed and let me concentrate on actually enjoying whatever gig I was playing.

So that's "why" for me. (I'm a traitor!! eeek!!)
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Post subject: Re: Fender Rhodes
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:28 am
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FRR34 wrote:
a Nord or a light Synth with a decent Piano patch is like heaven....and I really don't believe the vast majority of listeners knows or cares about the difference between a 'real" Hammond or Rhodes sound and a Nord or a synth.
Just my 1cent's worth....but the day I stopped hauling my Rhodes 88 around was a happy day indeed and let me concentrate on actually enjoying whatever gig I was playing.

Also, the reliability of many of the old transistor based keyboards and pianos was not exactly great.

A few years ago, Rick Wakeman made a couple of records using his old equipment, and he spent more time finding out where the smoke was coming from and redesigning songs around parts that didn't work than actual playing.



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