on 1/4/01 10:22 PM, Thomas Sheehan at t.sheehan@worldnet.att.net wrote: > I cut my tuning / piano technician teeth on the Rhodes in the piano labs at > Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1973. I will always revere the person > who invented the instrument, and the many techs among us who truly grokked > what it was all about! I guess you could say I wouldn't be a piano technician if not for Harold Rhodes and his Rhodes electric piano. After college, my Rhodes was my only piano for about 4 years. I tried to maintain the instrument myself; after all, Harold used to claim that you could do anything a Rhodes piano needed with just a Phillips head screw driver and a pair of pliers. :) Because of my being under the hood of a Rhodes, I got interested in actions and tuning in general, and the rest is history. Maybe there aren't too many Rhodes pianos still being played, but the sampled sound of a Rhodes piano is present in many, many sample-playback synths and digital pianos. The Rhodes sound will be around for a long, long time. Kent Swafford
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