> This is really interesting. In some respects, then, the Rhodes > electronic piano is actually an electric Dulcitone, since the > tine/resonating bar assembly of the Rhodes constitutes a tuning fork, > albeit with unequal arms. > > Kent Exactly. A lot of years ago, I attended a local seminar class given by Harold Rhodes his own self during which he described the development process of the instrument. The first incarnation was essentially a keyboard xylophone with aluminum tone bars (tubing), and the action geometry came out of playing with a spoon on a table in the mess hall. The production model used the tuning fork idea for the electronic pickup, and kept the rocking spoon action action. The electronic pickup, with the post processing potential, and the possible tine to pickup proximity adjustments, with the surprisingly broad and interesting potential timber spectrum, puts it in a somewhat different class than the celeste. Similar, but a bunch more versatile. Ron N
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