Fender rhodes

[bldozier]

Can anyone recommend some fender rhodes,

[Chevelle]

A classic: The Doors "Riders On The Storm". Ray Manzarek playing the Fender Rhodes suitcase piano.

Hjalmar

[toddalin]

Stevie Wonder, Livin for the City as well as much of his other stuff. Also Billy Preston on Get Back.

[Allanvh5150]

Bob Mayo.

[Chevelle]

Yes, Bob Mayo on "Frampton Comes Alive".

[Chevelle]

Donald Fagan with Steely Dan, listen to "Gaucho", a Grammy award production.

Hjalmar

[hsosdrum]

Just heard Frank Zappa's "Montana" today. Some great Rhodes work in that by the late George Duke.

[bldozier]

https://youtu.be/EUWO74h4h9o

Just a quick pull from my mp3 library havent even listened 2 it yet.
Vikings de la Guadeloupe pouqui.

[Radley]

The last album of the great Miles Davis 2nd quintet, "Filles de Kilimanjaro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filles_de_Kilimanjaro)" features both Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea on electric piano. HH played a Fender Rhodes & CC a RMI Electra. Sampling should be pretty easy as the piano is panned to the left channel. One should listen to this album for the outstanding drumming by Tony Williams and some beautiful solos by Wayne Shorter and Miles. The first song is an all out drum attack that has no equal.
The album was recorded at the great Columbia 30th St. Studio in New York City.

I"ve always wished there was some digital Jedi who could replace the electric piano with an acoustic piano on this album.

[bldozier]

Was it in carlitos way, or any movie for that matter?

[Fritz The Cat]

Deep Purple: "Blood from a stone" from the 2013 "Now What"-Album. Perfectly produced by Bob Ezrin.
It's an hommage to the Doors' "Riders on the storm".

[Fritz The Cat]

Reese Wynans plays Fender Rhodes on 5 tracks. Cool sounds, especially together with a laid back guitar solo by Eric Jonson in the outro of "Golden man" A5.

[Fritz The Cat]

A hypnotic atmosphere by the Fender Rhodes similar to the Door's "Riders on the storm". From 1973 LP "Magician's Hat" by Bo Hansson.

[Ducatista47]

Drummer George Kawaguchi's quartet with Hideo Ichikawa on keys. Rhodes and grand piano on different tracks. Superb Jazz performances, lively and modern.

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[hjames]

Thank you!
Nice stuff - bought it new off eBay, $21 shipped & it arrived today!

WOAH -
FYI - I looked up XRCD and found The Elusive Disc - who has this recording for ... $4.99!!

http://www.elusivedisc.com/George-Kawaguchi-The-Big-Four-XRCD/productinfo/TBMXR%2D0066/




Drummer George Kawaguchi's quartet with Hideo Ichikawa on keys. Rhodes and grand piano on different tracks. Superb Jazz performances, lively and modern.

82394

[Ducatista47]

Elusive Disc has come to AXPONA in Chicago for years, selling music in the Marketplace area of the huge show. Interesting company. Most years I have picked up a $5 or $10 bargain XRCD. I got this one a few years ago for ten and the next year they had it for five. XRCDs have been an audiophile staple for years. Three Blind Mice was a label that put out about 100-130 titles back when; the music selection, recording, and pressing quality was always top notch. The JVC (Japanese Victor Corporation) K2 recording and XRCD release technologies were as good as it gets until SACD came along. The exposition of them in the CD booklet explains them well. I was especially taken with the microphone placement information provided in the booklet; the geek factor is high in the Japanese market. Notice the Rhodes was not miked, it went line in directly to the console. Sounds outstanding!

The Big 4 disc seems so fresh it gives me a mortality twinge when I realize the fifty and thirty-year-old musicians would be seventy and ninety-something now.

My main music stop at the show is always MA Recordings, Todd Garfinkle's one-man company. He gets outstanding musicians together in acoustically superior venues (churches, concert halls, etc) and records in the most accurate manner of any recordist on the planet (Two super high-quality microphones, modified, with custom FET preamps directly to a digital Dual DSD recorder. No board, no mixing.) All the music is original, excepting Classical and Baroque titles. He lived in Japan for a quarter century and is an outstanding musician himself. He is very well connected. Direct sales only.

Another all original label music is Colin Townes' Provocateur in the UK. A more standard recording technique but top sonic quality, unusual and interesting music always by phenomenal musicians, of which he is one. Their online store is gone, but he uses Import CD, CD Baby, and other such outlets.

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2018-axpona-show-report-music-part-1/

[toddalin]

Actually, I prefer the sound of the Wurtlizer electric piano. It has more intonation than the Rhodes, but more likely to "breakup" when played hard.

Whereas the Rhodes used "wands" to produce the sound, the Wurtlizer used reeds. I had one of the first generation Wurtlizers. You would tune each note by adding/removing solder from the tip of the reeds, whereas on the Rhodes you would move a weight on the wand.

Joni Mitchell used a Wurtlizer as did the Carpenters.


https://youtu.be/q3SjqGfe-yM

[Fritz The Cat]

Actually, I prefer the sound of the Wurtlizer electric piano. It has more intonation than the Rhodes, but more likely to "breakup" when played hard.

Whereas the Rhodes used "wands" to produce the sound, the Wurtlizer used reeds. I had one of the first generation Wurtlizers. You would tune each note by adding/removing solder from the tip of the reeds, whereas on the Rhodes you would move a weight on the wand.

Joni Mitchell used a Wurtlizer as did the Carpenters.


https://youtu.be/q3SjqGfe-yM



Warm vibraphone-similar sound: the Wurlitzer played by Joe Zawinul in the original version of "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" from 1966 LP "Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Live at the Club". In subsequent live performances Zawinul prefered the Fender Rhodes piano. Sorry, i can't show the original LP: this one is a mid 70ies German reissue.

[Fritz The Cat]

One of Deodato's best solos played on the Fender Rhodes. Dedicated to Carly Simon and Carole King. Plus a fantastic guitar solo by Jay Berliner followed by a fine flute solo by Hubert Laws. Another superb Fender Rhodes solo on "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" A2.

[rusty jefferson]

I was completely unfamiliar with this record except for the title track single. Just heard Cold, Cold, People on the radio. Very interesting, the whole record is apparently just a beat box and organ for instrumentation. Not a Fender Rhodes, (apparently a Lowrey) but an interesting album.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/why-cant-we-live-together-mw0000105338

[Fritz The Cat]

I was completely unfamiliar with this record except for the title track single. Just heard Cold, Cold, People on the radio. Very interesting, the whole record is apparently just a beat box and organ for instrumentation. Not a Fender Rhodes, (apparently a Lowrey) but an interesting album.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/why-cant-we-live-together-mw0000105338


Here you have the 1972 funky live version with big orchestra and fat horns. And a rap in JB style!

[rusty jefferson]

Great line up and some very nice Fender Rhodes work.

83835

https://www.allmusic.com/album/red-clay-mw0000188315

[Fritz The Cat]

The most famous Fender Rhodes tune? The whole song is seasoned by Billy Preston. "I'm in love for the first time, don't you know it's gonna last..."

[Fritz The Cat]

Fender Rhodes sounds color the dark mood of a night ride and add hypnotic effects of dripping raindrops. Ear cinema. A song for eternity.

[Kay Pirinha]

Well, Riders has been mentioned yet in #2...

Best regards!

[BMWCCA]

Zombie thread!

Still no love for Norah Jones and her Fender Rhodes work?

[Fritz The Cat]

Well, Riders has been mentioned yet in #2...

Best regards!


You're right. But i am so excited... Gruss nach Deutschland, die Grenzen sind wieder frei: Fritz

[Fritz The Cat]

Zombie thread!

Still no love for Norah Jones and her Fender Rhodes work?

Show it! Fritz wants to know. From Switzerland. No Zombies here at all.

[BMWCCA]

Though in this video it's a Wurlitzer, here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opPx-2vQCgQ



Found this, too: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=71933

[Fritz The Cat]

Though in this video it's a Wurlitzer, here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opPx-2vQCgQ



Found this, too: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=71933

Wurlitzer or Fender Rhodes - that's the question.
Wurlitzer look here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer_Electric_Piano
Fender Rhodes look here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Rhodes

[Kay Pirinha]

Yes, it is a Wurlitzer, the 200A.

Best regards!

[toddalin]

Personally, I prefer the sound of the Wurlitzer. I had a very first generation when I was ~15 that I paid $70 for. Like this one, and maybe older. Traded it, and a Hammond M3, for a full sized Hammond D (C3 without percussion or vibrato) with Leslie 122RV. Later had the D "cut down" and percussion added.

Wurtlitzer strikes reeds with a blob of solder added/filed to tune. Rhodes strikes wands with sliding weights to tune. I think the reeds have more harmonics.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Wurlitzer_model_112_electric_piano_1956.JPG

Also had the 1st generation Hohner Clavinet in 1973. https://dt7v1i9vyp3mf.cloudfront.net/styles/news_large/s3/imagelibrary/e/ez051604-qEV41wk9E5mhK75f7yq._mFSiKUtjJ.Y.jpg

[Fritz The Cat]

Yes, it is a Wurlitzer, the 200A.

Best regards!

What's the main difference, concerning the sound, between the Fender Rhodes and the Wurlitzer 200A piano?

[toddalin]

What's the main difference, concerning the sound, between the Fender Rhodes and the Wurlitzer 200A piano?

Like I said, Wurlitzer uses reeds and Rhodes uses wands/tines to produce the sound and I think that the reeds have more harmonics. Both have a sustain pedal.

Hohner also made an electric piano and I believe it uses reeds, but has no provisions for a sustain pedal. It has a sound all it's own that is instantly recognizable. Just listen to Brian May play his in the many Queen songs.

BTW, that's not it he's playing in the video, though you hear it.


https://youtu.be/HaZpZQG2z10

[Kay Pirinha]

What's the main difference, concerning the sound, between the Fender Rhodes and the Wurlitzer 200A piano?

Fritz,

mind to compare the electric piano sounds of the Rhodes in Riders On The Storm, that we all like, with the Wurlitzer that we can hear in almost any tunes by Supertramp, for instance?

I fully second toddalin's opinion that the Wurly has ample of harmonics, while the Rhodes's sound is more bell-like (sinusoidal with attack, decay, sustain and release).

Best regards!

[Kay Pirinha]

Personally, I prefer the sound of the Wurlitzer. I had a very first generation when I was ~15 that I paid $70 for. Like this one, and maybe older. Traded it, and a Hammond M3, for a full sized Hammond D (C3 without percussion or vibrato) with Leslie 122RV. Later had the D "cut down" and percussion added.

Wurtlitzer strikes reeds with a blob of solder added/filed to tune. Rhodes strikes wands with sliding weights to tune. I think the reeds have more harmonics.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Wurlitzer_model_112_electric_piano_1956.JPG

Also had the 1st generation Hohner Clavinet in 1973. https://dt7v1i9vyp3mf.cloudfront.net/styles/news_large/s3/imagelibrary/e/ez051604-qEV41wk9E5mhK75f7yq._mFSiKUtjJ.Y.jpg

Is this a Hohner Clavinet D6? This is well known from Stevie Wonder who played it frequently, for instance in Superstitious.

There are some more electric pianls as well. Does anyone remember the RMI Electra Piano? It can be heard within Siberian Khatru by Yes on the Yessongs live album, where Rick Wakeman plays a rapid passage inmidst the song.

Now here is what I've hauled into our home last Sunday. This is a first hand Hammond C-2 organ in almost pristine estate that I bought from a church at Hamburg. As per the serial #40434, it has been made at the Hammond factory at Chicago, Ill. somewhen between 1905 and 1952 and has been imported by that church then. Look at that beautiful Quatrefoil decoration on the dark walnut case!

Along with it came two JR-20 tone cabinets. One of them is sitting in the room with the organ, the other one I've placed into storage.

It I can get my hands on a Leslie 122, 122RV or 251, I'll let the JR-20's go.

It appears that the organ needs some TLC: The tone wheel generator's wax paper filter capacitors apparently have degenerated, so need replacement by properly tuned ones and a recalibration afterwards. And I'm afraid that the organ suffers from foam cancer. The remedy would be soldering in 1098 (9 contacts per key times 61 keys per manual times 2 manuals) fixed resistors and rebuilding the manuals' harnesses with solderable enamelled copper wire. Some tedious task, I think...

Best regards!

[Kay Pirinha]

Sorry, I have to stand corrected in two cases:

1st: In contrary to the Fender Rhodes and the Wurlitzer electric pianos, the RMI Electra Piano doesn't feature any oscillating mechanical parts. Instead, the sounds were created by transistorized oscillators.

Here's it's sound:
https://youtu.be/z5UV7lntAB8?t=185

2nd: My C-2 was built between 1950 and 1952, of course. This was a typo by me. Pardon me, please!

Best regards!

[toddalin]

Sorry, I have to stand corrected in two cases:

1st: In contrary to the Fender Rhodes and the Wurlitzer electric pianos, the RMI Electra Piano doesn't feature any oscillating mechanical parts. Instead, the sounds were created by transistorized oscillators.

Here's it's sound:
https://youtu.be/z5UV7lntAB8?t=185

2nd: My C-2 was built between 1950 and 1952, of course. This was a typo by me. Pardon me, please!

Best regards!

The Wurl, Rhode, and Hohner Pianet were the only three that used hammers/vibrating something or other. All others were electronic.

And I believe that the Vox Continental Baroque (I also had) came out before the RMI. Like the RMI, the upper keyboard on the VOX Baroque has a separate "keyer" for each key of the keyboard, unlike a Hammond or Lowrey percussion which is "one shot."

Before Valley Sound cut down my Hammond D, it looked like the C in the picture. After the transformation, it looked like the one the keyboard player in Angel uses. Was $3,000 (1972-1973) to do the cut-down and refinish the two Leslies. This included adding percussion, and mine was the only one made (probably ever) that retained the full pedal board that plugged into the bottom of console with a 50 pin amphenol. My Hammond was from the '40s.

Didn't cost me anything. A friend was delivering the organ/Leslies from Las Vegas to LA and he hit the inspection station with his van because the sun was right in their eyes, and those old Ford Falcon vans had lousy brakes, really doing a number on the cabinet (not to mention splitting his head open requiring beaucoup stitches). Insurance paid for everything.



https://youtu.be/Q3xCgcEUHBc

[toddalin]

Is this a Hohner Clavinet D6? This is well known from Stevie Wonder who played it frequently, for instance in Superstitious.

Best regards!


No, that is the 1st generation Clavinet I. These were followed by the Clavinet C, which Stevie originally played, followed by the D6, which he later played. But now he uses a Vintage Vibe Clavinet where they now modify the old Clavinets and add "auto-waa".

Clavinet C:https://youtu.be/jaY_fxlpeII
https://youtu.be/jaY_fxlpeII


Clavinet D6:
https://youtu.be/DmVBN7EGCVs

Vintage Vibe Reconstruction (They also do Wurlitzer electric pianos):
https://youtu.be/U_4G6juQsRI

https://youtu.be/5drgJM1CjRk


https://www.vintagevibe.com/products/vibanet