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Post subject: Fender Keyboard Player's Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:21 am
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I didn't see any designated area to post about these, but I'm still playing a Fender Chroma Polaris occasionally. Ya gotta love those analog tones. 8)

Any other guitarists that play keyboards as well ?

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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:35 pm
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I do.... I play piano and Hammond, and synth stuff, of course. An old 73-key Rhodes is my fave instrument.


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I use a Korg TR synth.

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i'm old school. i play an upright regular piano.


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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:48 pm
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I just talked to guy that needed new sliders for his Chroma Polaris. Unfortunately, FMIC hasn't had parts for those for over 20 years!

Personally, I've got a Wurlitzer electric piano that I love. I wouldn't pass up a chance at a Rhodes, though!


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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:17 am
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During my senior year of high school, the music department let me borrow the Fender Rhodes that had been sitting in its suitcase for probably fifteen years. It was absolutely flawless. A friend of mine helped me build a cab with an eight inch and twelve inch speakers. We hooked up a wah and that thing sung. Several years later, the keyboard is still in my basement studio seeing regular use.


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Jeremy Deatherage -Fender wrote:
I just talked to guy that needed new sliders for his Chroma Polaris. Unfortunately, FMIC hasn't had parts for those for over 20 years!

Personally, I've got a Wurlitzer electric piano that I love. I wouldn't pass up a chance at a Rhodes, though!


Have the guy check craigslist.org - there's currently a couple of Chromas Polaris units available !

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I use a Casio to emulate a B3 (fair) and a Fender Rhodes (pretty good).


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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:37 pm
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Okay - fast forward to now - Chroma Polaris is gone and replaced with
a Korg TR-61...

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and soft synths (Moog, B3, Arp, Rhodes, Wurly).

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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:48 pm
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I don't but all my kids play piano. we have a spinet piano, and a yamaha electric piano. I was looking at some youtube videos, and my eldest saw a guy playing a Fender Rhodes, now he really wants one. I see some from time to time, but they're either really rough shape, or they want way too much money, so just waiting for the right one to come along.

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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:06 pm
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I failed miserably at piano and keyboard harmony in school.
I did learn to read first year pieces though, slow as a snail.
I dreaded my teacher, who happened to be the principal.

Essential to sequencing, I find us guitarists and bassists,
we come up with some great stuff sitting at the keyboard,
once we ease into it.

I much regret having sold a great Ensoniq keyboard,
have not replaced it.

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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:55 pm
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Piano was my first instrument .Took lessons for years. I also now own a big upright piano that i bought brand new 6-7 years ago. Love playing it , but unfortunately it gets too little attention , as I often find it more convenient to use some midi-based keyboard. I have a tiny Akai APK25 , a M-Audio Axiom 49 , and also a couple of synths : Korg x50 and an old Oberheim Matrix 6.
Keyboards are great fun , and a necessity in my life . Though I mostly tend to play some guitar :D

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:23 pm
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My mother desperately wanted my brother and I to play piano (vicariously living through us). She got lessons for us, starting when I was 7 and he was 13.

I had quite a bit of desire to play piano as well, but it just never "clicked" with me. I gave up after about five years, and started playing guitar and harp a few years later.

My brother, however, was a natural. Within months, he was playing ragtime and boogie-woogie stylings...his heroes were Jerry Lee Lewis and Scott Joplin, and he performed admirably.

When I started playing guitar, I tried to get him to learn the songs I was learning to play, but his wife was less than thrilled at the thought of her husband playing in blues clubs with her ignorant little brother-in-law (me).

He stopped playing entirely within a couple years. Life with a wife and three kids combined with lymphedema in his right hand combined to make it an impossible hobby for him.

It's a pity, because he was really figuring out that Pinetop Perkins style.

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:34 pm
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My first keyboard was an old Teischord (that I'm pretty sure was made by the same folks who made the Teisco guitars as it's MIJ also,they also made an identical twin to it called the Orpheus)the organ is quite similar in layout to the Vox Jaguar and the Farfisa Fas 5 and sounds like a hybrid of the two would.My next keyboard was a Yamaha CS-01 Mini synth with a little 2" speaker.Althouh the speaker was really tinny and rinky-dink when you put it through a high powered amp or PA system it would sound like a giant Moog,Arp or Oberheim and when put through a suitable system it could do a very competent job of E L & P's "Lucky Man".MY first good keyboard was a Yamaha PSR-38 that was MIDI compatable,had a plethora of voices and rythms and you could do quite a few programming tricks wit it when connected to a MIDI.My most recent acquisition,that I got for a song was a Yamaha NR-36 electric piano and besides it too being MIDI compatable it also has 3 piano voices,2 organ voices,2 harpsichord voices and a strings setting that's a dead ringer for that of the Yamaha DX-7.I now have all 4 set up in my music room but unfortunately I need a multi keyboard stand and from what I see they are pretty pricey,anyone know a good cheap source of such gear,that ships to Canada and doesn't charge double the value of the product to ship it as I have had experience with in the past.

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