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sounds amazing

th-cam.com/video/0BeqJ3mOiEw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rMPgd5QGUaHNEwr3 I had an original Peterson in the Mk1 Rhodes which is quite different to my Mk2 I like the Maxon Stereo analogue fx unit tremolo. You are 100% correct. Minimal playing dynamics and you can fool the ears- Hi my Retroflyer preamp sounds like thus on my Mk2 Rhodes.

You have spoken about raising the string pitch, but not about lowering the pitch. Are you going to lower the pitch? I'm interested in your project. Cheers...

I'm not far from you (Hull). There was a shop in thr 90s that sold Rhodes, really cheap back then, like £300. Paid £3.5k for my mk2 suitcase two years ago!

Which tines do you have one this one?

Tuned C6, I think?

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can i buy your 3d model I want to make one!

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Thanks for showing the whole setting up process! I'm guessing this can be tailored to left-handed people by installing the pitch and volume antennas the other way around?

Just seeing this, Dean; a pretty spot on analysis of our new model. We just announced the end of the Deluxe and today we took our last orders of the Deluxe model. Thank you for making this video, we think the Marquis is a winner. As a side note, historically we have a steady business of selling Rhodes. The these days, its all Vintage Vibe piano sales. We have Rhodes we can't sell. That is a good sign for us. Thank you and keep up the good work!

Stretch tuning as well makes a huge difference.

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While both are dope to me, I’ve always been a little more partial to Fender Rhodes pianos. They sound so beautiful on chill joints; especially with a little vibrato and reverb added in. Wurlitzers, while having the ability to sound beautiful, tend to sound a little grittier. They definitely work well with harder tracks (like in ‘70s Funk and Hard Soul, for example).

oh man ive got the double whammy, broken screen and a janky volume pot. good thing for me I made a great preset on the default patch and i can navigate around the patches and effects pretty well without a screen. the volume pot works if its at the right angle so I just taped a plastic covering over it and its been getting the job done for 15 years.

I'd rather insist with slow chorale. You didn't give enough attention to this. Nice video, though

Hi Dean! Congrats on being brave enough to start on this dulcitone fix! I was wondering, where did you get the leather pieces which hold the tines? I have a dulcitone here in Northumberland which is in great condition but the notes are very ‘thuddy’ and I think sorting the straps and the felt will help with that. I may need some replacement printed parts at some point too. Hoping to tune this one to A=440. How can I get in contact with you?

I would probably go for Yamaha Reface CP since it has Rhodes, Wurli and CP70, all three are faves of mine :D

What are those mutes on tines made of?

? I don’t quite get the point. It sounded like any other bass pickup to me.

Interesting instrument! After some research, I recently discovered that it was used by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark in some of their songs (Electricity, The Misunderstanding, …). I spent years trying to reproduce THAT sound with different types of synthesizers, without success. Some days ago, after having finally understood that that sound comes from the Selmer Pianotron, I found a video from a guy selling his Pianotron and showing the conditions of the instrument, playing each single key (most of the keys were broken). Well, I sampled the best sounding notes with my Roland S-550 sampler, obtaining a not-so-bad playable patch. Unfortunately the audio in the video was very poor quality, so my result too is not so hi-fi as it should be… Your Pianotron seems in very good working conditions and it sounds crystal clear: it would be nice to sample it! EDIT: I read better the description of your video: I might be interested in the VST and how you create it. Although my setup is completely dawless at the moment

I legitimately think I have everything I need to do this at home.......

Can you do a comparison between the Fender Rhodes and the Vintage Vibe? Full disclosure is that I already ordered mine! :-)

Could you make me a “new” pianet? 44 key maybe?

Hi there. Really interested in your progress with this project. Looking forward to your next installment.

Thanks for posting this. I've been thinking about something similar for a while now but your design is much simpler. Simpler being more elegant. The only thing I'll add is some sort of marking for fret positions.

I love this sound. A little cheepy 8bit sound.

I'm curious why you used brass round and not half round. Wouldn't half round be a lot easier for this since it would set flat? I don't know much about pedal steels, but that also looked really big to me, in diameter. I did not know about the friction thing, that's good to learn. I have a vintage clavinet (that I have no business owning with my current skill level, but I still love it), and it has a brass rod for the bridge. It's diameter seems much smaller, and it's also just floating. (There's sort of a slot in the body it rests in, but the string tension is what holds it on.) (For a clavinet, you can think of it as an electric guitar that is only played with hammer-ons, so there's not really a nut.) I do have vague plans, in my head at least, to try to do what you're doing, but for a clavinet; make a really cheap DIY version, and a video or videos on how to do it. So I really enjoy your videos, and I'm watching closely for ideas to steal!

Wurly on Time by Pink Floyd is one of my fav uses of an electric piano

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Thank you again for documenting this process. Really well done and helpful.

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Well, clearly Brent Mydland must have used a Dyno my Piano in the 80's, can't mistake that sound.

I finally did it! I managed to replace my volume pot!

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Great video! I loved the polishing process and end look! I wonder whether you drilled the holes before cutting the outside shape would make it easier to make all the pieces uniform, if that makes sense?

Curious about the stereo spread of the pedal. I’m not really hearing it pan in the way the actual preamp does? We’re you using the stereo outputs?

I really love my pianet with a distortion pedal rather than fuzz!

I think you are doing great. I have a masters in machine engineering and fully support your process 👍 Maybe use a bit more lubrication when drilling and cutting? 😊 To get next level coherrence between identical parts it is common to crate jigs that ensure every action is identical, but that can be extremely time consuming and would be overkill in this case IMO. Looking forward to the rest of the build

Have you tried adjusting the strike line?

Very nice experiment and thank you for doing this and showing it to us!. In my opinion there is a problem with this configuration. A lot of magnets, as you show it, push your strings very much down. So the magnets do now allow the string to vibrate as it should and also for much less time. So this may maybe improve the strength of the signal on the beginning, but the string are not gonna vibrate too long and you will loose on sustain. Another and the most importand thing, and i guess that is the reason why such pickups are never made, is that they access a big length of the string. So the string motion is getting destorted. Sorry for my bad english, but i hope you got what i mean. Anyway it is a good experiment :-)

If you use the initial pilot hole centered on the end that needs to be radiused, you could place it in a pin clamped at the right distance from the sanding wheel and then turn them through the arc. This will make the outside radius a constant distance from the inside hole and all ten should be identical. After that, you can enlarge the hole for the bearing.

Suggestion in one word: casting.

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Hot n' Crispy! (like fried chicken! haha) I like it!

If you got to choose 1 piano, and your budget allows, perhaps a Vintage Vibe piano with the optional variable voice control? It's built with replica Rhodes parts, so it'll sound more like a Rhodes, but the variable voice control & EQ, when properly set, can get the sound pretty similar to a Wurlitzer tone, or to just about any Rhodes sound.

Brilliant video, so interesting.

very cool to see it coming along! the aluminum parts look very nice. id be wary about wear if youre going to have the strings sitting directly on top of the 3d printed parts. keep up the good work homie 👍