Rhodes used to say everything a Rhodes needed in the way of service could be done by the owner with a Phillips head screwdriver and a pair of pliers.[!] Some Rhodes pianos do not go out of tune much, and so, if they haven't been messed with too badly by owners through the years, you might be able to just touch up the tuning. Some remove the screws that hold the harp, and rotate the harp 90 degrees to vertical, and then to tune the tines, turn the coils on the tines to move them. I made a tool that let me tune through the resonating bars without lifting the harp. See attached fuzzy picture. You can find the "official" Rhodes stretch tuning online, but I believe it is only fundamentals. If you use an ETD, you could probably use a generic tuning for a low inharmonicity piano like a Yamaha. Kent On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, <toddpianoworks at att.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Got a call from a customer wanting a tuning on a Fender Rhodes. Apparently > no one else around here can do it. > > Has anyone here ever tuned 'em? What tool is needed? Any help would be > appreciated, thanks! > > Matthew > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100603/24125210/attachment.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Image067.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 23589 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100603/24125210/attachment.jpg>
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