Man, I live for the Rhodes!! I opened up a small business for the sole purpose of getting one of them, and after working for hours and hours, and searching through eBay, I finally found a listing in my state! On June 4th of this summer, I brought my fantastic instrument home. I love it so much, I cried while driving it home! Love to see it getting the attention it deserves 🥳
Harold Rhodes contribution in The Air Force, using Music Therapy to help WW2 heroes recover is remarkable in itself. Crafting playable keyboards from aircraft wreckage as the seed of the workhorse of generations performing pianists, is an impressive encore!
About 20 years ago my brother gave me his Rhodes Mark II (quite similar to the one featured in this video, but without all the extra knobs and inputs) when I was at a very difficult stage in my life and at a turning point. He knew I have been lusting over that Rhodes for years 😄and he just gave it to me! The best gift ever ☺ Of course there was the condition that he always wants to be able to borrow it, which was (still is) of course an automatic 'yes'. I love hearing him play on it (he's a much better pianist than me). I still play it almost every day and learned how to maintain and tune it. After all these years it's still in great condition (even after doing much gigging with it). I just love Rhodes (and my brother who so kindly gave it to me of course). These things are magic to me. The one sitting just right next to me especially ❤
You had me in the first 10 seconds. Taxi is my all time favourite TV theme. Rhodes is my all time favourite keyboard sound. I can't play keyboards, I don't own a Rhodes. But I do have that little Yamaha Reface that does a pretty good impression, and just touching it, any notes, any chord, no matter how ineptly played, makes me feel like I'm bathing in warm melted chocolate.
Same here, not a keyboard player, but I do play the saxophone, and found a midi wind synth player, Yamaha WX11 and hook it up to a Yamaha VL70m with a Rhode tone bank. I plan on hooking it up with my new Aerophone wind synth player., I think the same could be done with the electric gyuitar with a midi out interface. At one time I did have a Reface CP and had it hook up with the WX11 and it actually was a great combo, with the "Midi Solution" interface. Im hoping that with the USB/midi interface I can do the same with the Aerophone and do the chord effect on the Roland JV1010, there is an option to use the joystick on the unit to slide with a 4 way chord combination.
@@ruscular MIDI is awesome. One thing I like to use MIDI for is recording what I play. If I come up with something I am liable to forget what I did. So if I record the MIDI notes I can see exactly what notes I played and can feed them back into my keyboard or other MIDI device. Today I have been playing around with playing my Eurorack modular synthesizer with my Yamaha keyboard via MIDI. MIDI is so much fun.
Does anyone else get extreme nostalgia vibes when you hear the Rhodes? It immediately takes me back to being a small kid in the early 90s and hearing it on old American TV shows they would play in the middle of the day as filler. Like I'm a kid home sick from school, bored, watching one of 5 channels that our TV could get, and I'm hearing that sound.
Yes, it's a real classic sound. But I would associate it more with the 1970s and early 80s. In the early 90s it was often the Yamaha DX7 Rhodes imitation that was used.
I love the Rhodes sound. Steely Dan / Donald Fagen also made a lot of use of the Rhodes. Particularly on their late 70s albums. The Rhodes is very prominent on the songs "Hey Nineteen" and "Babylon Sisters" or "New Frontier" from Donald's 1982 solo album "The Nightfly". Great stuff!
Yeah you have the early Wurlitzer Steely Dan with “Can’t buy a thrill, Countdown to ecstasy, and Pretzel logic. Then the Rhodes Steely Dan which was everything else.
Ive been attracted to the Rhodes sound since high school. It was Jeff Lorber Fusion and I heard it on his song Black Ice from his 1979 album. I just fell in love! Keep in mind, I am a drummer but I LOVE quality instruments and the Rhodes is just ONE! Larry Dunn, Frank McComb, Herbie Hancock, Patrice Russen, Greg Phillinganes, Rodney Franklin, Chick Corea, George Duke, Teena Marie, Jeff Lorber, Russell Ferrente, Joe Sample...I mean its just ENDLESS and ALL of them have their very own particular sound.
What makes the sound so great is that like a real piano the metal tines can create harmonics on the other tines, so you get harmonics that you will never get on a digital instrument.
Great video, how beautiful is the sound of the Rhodes. I recall first time I heard it was on Michael Jackson's, Stevie Wonder penned "I Can't Help It", masterfully played by Greg Phillinganes.
Great insight! I've been gifted a 1979 Rhodes Mark I Suitcase 88 with PR7054 Speaker from my late Grand Pa. Everything works, no broken keys, etc. Just needs to be serviced
The video is slightly misleading on that point. It's not really a "fork" at all. It's called a "tine," whatever that means, and it's just a single rod that looks like a wire. It doesn't have a fork, just a single rod. When you see the vibrating wire in the video, that wire is the whole thing. The large brass colored bars you see across the top when he opens that case are resonators that increase the sustain of the tine, but they are a separate structure, which is obvious since the vibrating wire you see looks nothing like the giant brass bars. The piano needs tuning from time to time and this is done by moving a little spring thats around the end of the tine. I'm guessing that a tuning fork setup would not allow tuning. It does, however, sound similar to a tuning fork.
@@TheLarryBrown did you read my next comment lol I said I actually enjoy bits of trivia like that. So in this context, it’s a compliment. I like these tidbits because it helps built a relationship to whatever the trivia is about.
My Rhodes EPs (my fourth meanwhile, a Mk1 Stage) have been THE musical love of my life. Around 80% of all my songwriting over the years has happened on a Rhodes, without ever making a conscious decision about that: I just sit down at a Rhodes to start the creative process, and I find myself coming back there again and again. It's my alltime go to instrument to get into creative mood: equally well suited for groovy bass riffs, for rich harmonic content, and for singable, memorable melodic themes and hook lines. Nowadays everybody can have the most sophisticated grand piano sounds on stage and in the studio, and piano will always be a great instrument. And you can play and even own classical analog synths of all kinds, or well done plugins, alongside with great modern digital synths like Serum - I truly like a lot of them. You can also have whole orchestral libraries and brass sections at your fingertip. But nothing ever changed about my no. 1 go to instrument: it will just continue be a Rhodes. Thank you very much for this video!
Hi there 😁 from down here in little old New Zealand. I had a hankering after the Rhodes sound for quite a few years and then one day, my wife and were looking around a music shop in Auckland. A minute later, she says"they've got a Rhodes piano around here". I said something like" are you kidding they stopped making those in 1984"! Anyway she wasn't kidding 🤣 and when we got back to Hastings, we were soon making enquiries at the local branch. I have owned a Mk 7 73S for a number of years now. I must say that the touch is brilliant although it doesn't sound like the old ones! Apparently each model or generation of Rhodes piano has its own sound. I discovered that more fully from playing a Yamaha CP88, which is loaded with different models. I think that the "active" version of the recent model may be rather different in voice too. Claudio's Mk 2 has a stunning sound!
I was a huge Brian Auger fan. I got my Rhodes in '76, and had the action modified by John Melcher at Magic Music Machines in S.F. I moved to Hawaii in '93, but my brother still has it in Ca. I hope to be reunited with it.
Although I am primarily a fan of guitar and bass, I absolutely love the sound of the electric piano. If only there was a book of songs written purely for the this fantastic instrument.
That is amazing. As a musician myself I can't think of a more beautiful story... The first one being made by decommissioned planes, Built to bring music to wounded warriors. Something built for love and happiness from something that was designed with hate and destruction in mind. Truly an example of the power of music.. brought tears to my eyes.
The MODX, the Jupiter X and now a brand new Rhodes piano. It's awesome to see gear companies give us not only new ways to play the classic sounds but updates that let us create whole new sounds. I'd bet £10 that it will be called the Rhodes X too :)
Amazed you resisted the intro to ‘Riders on the Storm’ when talking about the Rhodes’ ability to invoke an ‘elemental’ feel. Really interesting and looking forward to more ! All the best
I'm sure I've heard another youtuber play a similar (but not identical) tune, that he described as 'Riders on the Demonetisation Storm'. This might give you an indication of what happens to musicians who cover that song on their channel, even for a short demonstration of the electric piano patch on a digital keyboard.
It's so awesome that real electric piano's are still being made! This video is great, i think many have heard the Rhodes sounds, but may not know that it was an actual E-piano. *And E-piano's are still being made!* ❤️ The *_Rhodes MK8_* on the horizon, and then there is the *all-new **_Valente Electric Piano_* which sounds somewhere in between a Rhodes and Wurlitzer but has it own sound. Then ofcourse there is a great second hand market for Rhodes and Wurlitzer, with specialist that still know how to repair/service them and parts still being made by _Vintage-Vibe_ .
Since a young teenager growing up throughout the 1990's i was totally overblown by the sound of electric strung instruments and all things like the record player & record collecting and why i simply loved the artists and bands of the previous decades. The music of my generation never interested me. Most people my own age didn't understand why i liked old music. It was more than just about the music! it was the technology used and the sheer talent. The hammond organ, the fender rhodes, the mellotron, leslie cabinets the valve amplifiers the pedals the electric & acoustic guitar! It was the fascination of music boxes and the record player as a child that brought me here, all of which work through the same principle, acoustic vibration!😃
One of my 4 favourite sounds of all time. The Hammond organ the whirly and the Honer electric piano are the other 3 instruments I love more than anything as well
Thank you for this video. Taxi - "Angela" - Bob James, is my favorite song of all-time. It touches me spiritually somehow every time I hear it. I would love to have a Rhodes in my studio. Looking forward to what's coming next!
The first time I heard the Taxi theme as a kid I knew I was hearing a Fender Rhodes. Just wondering if you have ever heard ‘Tel Me a Bedtime Story Now’ - Herbie Hancock off Quincy’s ‘Sounds n Stuff like That’
I had a Rhodes back in the 80's. It was awesome. I sold it when I moved to Florida from NY because it weighed 100 pounds. If the new Rhodes uses the same tines but comes in at under 30 pounds I'm all over it.
I repaired a Rhodes Mk2 belonging to a college I attended in around 2002. I wanted to use it for a project. It was awesome! Broken tines, several missing felts and a broken hammer. College paid for the parts, and I did the rest. I was proud of that little endeavour! 😎
Bob James is what I call a “Rhodes” scholar. One of many; Herbie, Chick, George Duke, Joe Zawinul, Jeff Lorber, Deodato, and the list goes on. Nothing, and I mean “NOTHING” is like a Rhodes!😌❤️🎶🎹👍🏾
Just about every synth tone generator has a Rhode sound tone bank in the bank, and I think its probably the most sought after sound. I wish my new Aerphone-10 had it!
I love the Fender Rhodes as far back as I can remember when my friend bought suitcase Rhodes and the great sound live and in the studio. I really like the sound of the earliest Rhodes the "Sparkle Top" it has a grit to its sound I love. Rhodes changed a lot over the years and with the changes the sound of Rhodes changed too. I'm finally retired and learning piano (after 50+ years of guitar) and would love to have a Rhodes, but they are just too dam heavy for me to move around anymore, so I am content with my Keyscape software and Kronos the two have great collections of of Rhodes and Rhodes with effects. Looking forward to hearing and seeing how much the new Rhodes will weight. I'd still would love to have an actual Rhodes.
Played in a band & the keyboard player had a Rhodes. Don't know the model, but it had a curved top cover. And you fine tuned the intonation by moving little globs of solder on the tines. The sucker was heavy as was the action. It was really hard for me to play but hey, I'm a guitar player. Sounded fantastic though.
Hi Claudio, really love this small documentary. Nice to have a look inside a real Rhodes piano. Any idea about doing a Clavinet (Stevie Wonder) and a Wurlitzer (Supertramp!) small documentary too?
Awesome -- love your videos, your playing, and your enthusiasm! I scored a very beaten up Rhodes 88 in high school -- peeling vinyl cover, missing legs. I used metal plumbing pipes for legs to bring it up to standing height for playing in my band. And I cleaned and tuned the whole inside, repairing hammers, replacing felt -- and I tweaked the "aim" of the tines to give it a bright, almost piano-like sound -- not the typical warm, rolled-off high end. Perfect for my 1980-81 high-school rock/punk/new-wave band!!! Long gone now -- but what a great bit of mechanical music-making!!!
Oddly, out of nowhere a week or so ago, I was thinking about how specifically an electric piano generates a tone…. And this pops up today in my feed! Thank you
Awesome documentary! This instrument just inspires anyone who comes across it to create music and noise in general. My aunt had a fender mark1 73-key suitcase piano in her dining room where the amplifier was also the stand for the piano and growing up I would get so excited to go to her house on the holidays because not knowing how to play, I would sit there and just make random noises and patterns and she always encouraged my creativity. She also played the 88 key version Rhodes piano in her church band. Growing up listening to Stevie Wonder and the doors, every time I hear a Rhodes piano or even visually seeing one I immediately think back to being a kid and messing around on my aunts rhodes piano, Stevie Wonder, Ray Manzarek and the 1970s in general because it was used a lot in television music lol. I think one is even played on the Mr. Rogers theme song. Such an iconic piano, but personally besides my aunts Fender Rhodes piano I have never actually seen any other ones in real life before.
I got to play one of these beauties when I did a bit of work experience at secondary school. We went to a studio and they had one. One of the most beautiful instruments I think I’ve ever played. I would love to play a Hammond organ. That’s on my bucket list as well LOL. Thank you for this amazing video
I love it. I love the story. I looooooooove the song. I’m about to cut a record and I am going to be using the sound. So I’m studying up on it. Great video
I thank you for this history lesson on one of my favorite instruments. Grew up on the Sound of Philadelphia and they used either a Fender/Rhodes or a Wurlitzer on nearly EVERY hit they produced. GREAT VIDEO! 👍🏾❤️👍🏾❤️👍🏾❤️
TSOP - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes’ - Wake Up Everybody has a Fender Rhodes right at the beginning. love that tune so much, Teddy Pendergrass voice the voice of soul.
Last year I managed to pick up a 1978 Mk 1. It’s probably my favourite thing ever. It’s not just the sound but the history that comes along with it. Great video Dr Mix!
I don't think I've ever heard an overdriven Rhodes before, it sounds mean! I fell in love with the Rhodes sound after hearing it used extensively through Zero 7's When It Falls album... some day I'll own one too
Wow, another great video Doc. As an electric guitar player I have always envied and loved the Fender Rhodes sound, If only i'd learned to play those keys..
YESS! A channel that gives so much appreciation and demos with Rhodes!!! Nostalgic! I grew up listening to this music since I was a baby and The sounds always alway always gave me goosebumps even till this day! It’s the reason I wanted to learn piano! As of now I will start off with the yahama cp reface mini keyboard since it’s abit more affordable! Will always love that sound!!
This is a very comprehensive quick Coverage of What the Rhodes had to offer and luckily is going to be continued by the great Rhodes Team headed by Jeremy and Dan. Thanks God for Harold Rhodes and Leo Fender putting it all together for us back in the days in Fullerton. great Job Doctor Mix 🙂
I paid $200 for mine in the 80's. Nobody wanted them then. I still have it and it is a wonderful instrument. I remember one local shop had a couple used Wurlitzers for $100. I was thinking about it but then the shop burned to the ground (Sam's Music Shop in Cleveland, late 1980's, I think). Nothing has a harder action than a Rhodes. I used to say that it doesn't play the wrong notes because you don't hit them hard enough.
It's interesting how while similar, the Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos have unique sounds. I personally like the Wurlitzer a bit more because it's a little brighter sounding - both are amazing instruments with a fantastic sound.
I never knew the Rhodes piano composed of tuning forks until now. I genuinely thought it was a popular synth that tries to mimic the sound of a piano. Great video
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Man, I live for the Rhodes!! I opened up a small business for the sole purpose of getting one of them, and after working for hours and hours, and searching through eBay, I finally found a listing in my state! On June 4th of this summer, I brought my fantastic instrument home. I love it so much, I cried while driving it home! Love to see it getting the attention it deserves 🥳
Amazing inspiring….we have to work for our dreams…. Most of don’t
Amazing
💖💖💖💖 congratulations 🎉
What year/model did you get? I have a 1976 Mk1 73 stage.
Wish me luck pls🥺
Harold Rhodes contribution in The Air Force, using Music Therapy to help WW2 heroes recover is remarkable in itself. Crafting playable keyboards from aircraft wreckage as the seed of the workhorse of generations performing pianists, is an impressive encore!
I'm a bassist. I'm always happy when the Rhodes colour shows up in bands I'm in. One of my favourite sounds.
I totally agree.
About 20 years ago my brother gave me his Rhodes Mark II (quite similar to the one featured in this video, but without all the extra knobs and inputs) when I was at a very difficult stage in my life and at a turning point. He knew I have been lusting over that Rhodes for years 😄and he just gave it to me! The best gift ever ☺
Of course there was the condition that he always wants to be able to borrow it, which was (still is) of course an automatic 'yes'. I love hearing him play on it (he's a much better pianist than me).
I still play it almost every day and learned how to maintain and tune it. After all these years it's still in great condition (even after doing much gigging with it).
I just love Rhodes (and my brother who so kindly gave it to me of course). These things are magic to me. The one sitting just right next to me especially ❤
You had me in the first 10 seconds. Taxi is my all time favourite TV theme. Rhodes is my all time favourite keyboard sound. I can't play keyboards, I don't own a Rhodes. But I do have that little Yamaha Reface that does a pretty good impression, and just touching it, any notes, any chord, no matter how ineptly played, makes me feel like I'm bathing in warm melted chocolate.
Same here, not a keyboard player, but I do play the saxophone, and found a midi wind synth player, Yamaha WX11 and hook it up to a Yamaha VL70m with a Rhode tone bank. I plan on hooking it up with my new Aerophone wind synth player., I think the same could be done with the electric gyuitar with a midi out interface. At one time I did have a Reface CP and had it hook up with the WX11 and it actually was a great combo, with the "Midi Solution" interface.
Im hoping that with the USB/midi interface I can do the same with the Aerophone and do the chord effect on the Roland JV1010, there is an option to use the joystick on the unit to slide with a 4 way chord combination.
@@ruscular MIDI is awesome. One thing I like to use MIDI for is recording what I play. If I come up with something I am liable to forget what I did. So if I record the MIDI notes I can see exactly what notes I played and can feed them back into my keyboard or other MIDI device. Today I have been playing around with playing my Eurorack modular synthesizer with my Yamaha keyboard via MIDI. MIDI is so much fun.
Bob James then Gil Scott Heron. Love that sound.
Does anyone else get extreme nostalgia vibes when you hear the Rhodes? It immediately takes me back to being a small kid in the early 90s and hearing it on old American TV shows they would play in the middle of the day as filler. Like I'm a kid home sick from school, bored, watching one of 5 channels that our TV could get, and I'm hearing that sound.
Yes, it's a real classic sound. But I would associate it more with the 1970s and early 80s. In the early 90s it was often the Yamaha DX7 Rhodes imitation that was used.
@@MacXpert74 well it was old 70s and 80s shows that were being played. Like taxi for instance.
I associate it with the show Arthur, because it is used in the background music.
that middle class sound from life, cartoons, commericals, it was a vibe
Vangelis had one with a custom EQ built in. He played it so beautifully, it almost sounds like a celesta.
The tone on that piano is so smooth, was surprised when you overdrived it the sound it made
I love the Rhodes sound. Steely Dan / Donald Fagen also made a lot of use of the Rhodes. Particularly on their late 70s albums. The Rhodes is very prominent on the songs "Hey Nineteen" and "Babylon Sisters" or "New Frontier" from Donald's 1982 solo album "The Nightfly". Great stuff!
Yeah you have the early Wurlitzer Steely Dan with “Can’t buy a thrill, Countdown to ecstasy, and Pretzel logic. Then the Rhodes Steely Dan which was everything else.
My first time hearing Rhodes was in 1987 at the Outrun game on the score wall after the run. I was 8 years old and I loved it❤
Ive been attracted to the Rhodes sound since high school. It was Jeff Lorber Fusion and I heard it on his song Black Ice from his 1979 album. I just fell in love!
Keep in mind, I am a drummer but I LOVE quality instruments and the Rhodes is just ONE!
Larry Dunn, Frank McComb, Herbie Hancock, Patrice Russen, Greg Phillinganes, Rodney Franklin, Chick Corea, George Duke, Teena Marie, Jeff Lorber, Russell Ferrente, Joe Sample...I mean its just ENDLESS and ALL of them have their very own particular sound.
the most beautiful piano sound ever - legendary
What makes the sound so great is that like a real piano the metal tines can create harmonics on the other tines, so you get harmonics that you will never get on a digital instrument.
I could listen to this instrument all day with it's silky smooth tones.
Love the sound of that instrument. Guitar player here. I love the way it sounded when you ran it through that amplifier. Incredible!
There is no sound like the Rhodes,just amazing.
I never knew that about the origin of Rhodes. Really cool! Thanks.
Thank you very much. It was my favorite instrument.
Doctor Mix does it again.
Great video, how beautiful is the sound of the Rhodes. I recall first time I heard it was on Michael Jackson's, Stevie Wonder penned "I Can't Help It", masterfully played by Greg Phillinganes.
That was really fun. Well done! thank you.
Great insight! I've been gifted a 1979 Rhodes Mark I Suitcase 88 with PR7054 Speaker from my late Grand Pa. Everything works, no broken keys, etc. Just needs to be serviced
Sign of the times🔥
I didn't know what Rhodes has metal forks and magnetic pickups! Waiting for the next chapter.
The video is slightly misleading on that point. It's not really a "fork" at all. It's called a "tine," whatever that means, and it's just a single rod that looks like a wire. It doesn't have a fork, just a single rod. When you see the vibrating wire in the video, that wire is the whole thing. The large brass colored bars you see across the top when he opens that case are resonators that increase the sustain of the tine, but they are a separate structure, which is obvious since the vibrating wire you see looks nothing like the giant brass bars. The piano needs tuning from time to time and this is done by moving a little spring thats around the end of the tine. I'm guessing that a tuning fork setup would not allow tuning. It does, however, sound similar to a tuning fork.
@@TheLarryBrown nerd
@@TheLarryBrown jk I live for this bits of trivia and information
@@jambajoby32 Nerd as in "very smart person." I'll take it. You earned a thumbs down from someone. Merry Christmas!
@@TheLarryBrown did you read my next comment lol I said I actually enjoy bits of trivia like that. So in this context, it’s a compliment.
I like these tidbits because it helps built a relationship to whatever the trivia is about.
My Rhodes EPs (my fourth meanwhile, a Mk1 Stage) have been THE musical love of my life. Around 80% of all my songwriting over the years has happened on a Rhodes, without ever making a conscious decision about that: I just sit down at a Rhodes to start the creative process, and I find myself coming back there again and again. It's my alltime go to instrument to get into creative mood: equally well suited for groovy bass riffs, for rich harmonic content, and for singable, memorable melodic themes and hook lines.
Nowadays everybody can have the most sophisticated grand piano sounds on stage and in the studio, and piano will always be a great instrument. And you can play and even own classical analog synths of all kinds, or well done plugins, alongside with great modern digital synths like Serum - I truly like a lot of them. You can also have whole orchestral libraries and brass sections at your fingertip. But nothing ever changed about my no. 1 go to instrument: it will just continue be a Rhodes. Thank you very much for this video!
Hi there 😁 from down here in little old New Zealand. I had a hankering after the Rhodes sound for quite a few years and then one day, my wife and were looking around a music shop in Auckland. A minute later, she says"they've got a Rhodes piano around here". I said something like" are you kidding they stopped making those in 1984"!
Anyway she wasn't kidding 🤣 and when we got back to Hastings, we were soon making enquiries at the local branch. I have owned a Mk 7 73S for a number of years now. I must say that the touch is brilliant although it doesn't sound like the old ones! Apparently each model or generation of Rhodes piano has its own sound. I discovered that more fully from playing a Yamaha CP88, which is loaded with different models. I think that the "active" version of the recent model may be rather different in voice too.
Claudio's Mk 2 has a stunning sound!
Absolutely Awesome Video. One of the best history stories ever.
I was a huge Brian Auger fan. I got my Rhodes in '76, and had the action modified by John Melcher at Magic Music Machines in S.F. I moved to Hawaii in '93, but my brother still has it in Ca. I hope to be reunited with it.
It turns 46 this year. That’s awesome
Absolutely fantastic. Your playing really shows the Rhodes off and I had no idea about the story. Awesome!
Oh cool!! I was thinking of you while I was scripting this … obviously 😁
Although I am primarily a fan of guitar and bass, I absolutely love the sound of the electric piano. If only there was a book of songs written purely for the this fantastic instrument.
Persona 5 has a lot of songs with the Fender Rhodes
for example this one th-cam.com/video/sKTPrTSJAx8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Pollux or this one th-cam.com/video/IfmajwSjfP0/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Pollux
What an instrument! I wish I can have one in December. I would have added to the list Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are”.
The Rhodes is also the main instrument on his song "James".
@@MacXpert74 You’re right! I think that he used two alternate Rhodes on that track; Turnstiles is my favourite album!
@@mattiadellamico888 Yeah, I'm listening to it now, and I think it was multi-tracked with the Rhodes being played twice. It's a great song!
Wow ... I absolutely love the sound of this instrument (I've only played VSTs or sample-based versions). This is fantastic!
That is amazing. As a musician myself I can't think of a more beautiful story... The first one being made by decommissioned planes, Built to bring music to wounded warriors. Something built for love and happiness from something that was designed with hate and destruction in mind. Truly an example of the power of music.. brought tears to my eyes.
The MODX, the Jupiter X and now a brand new Rhodes piano. It's awesome to see gear companies give us not only new ways to play the classic sounds but updates that let us create whole new sounds. I'd bet £10 that it will be called the Rhodes X too :)
Bet! Since it’s called the mark 8 😂 10 quid please 😀
I have a Rhodes MK-60 and I love it.
That was a particularly concise and informative item, thank you for sharing.
Rhodes is one of my favourite instruments of all time... and I'm a guitarist, I can't play piano at all... :)
Cheers from Italy! ;)
Claudio, you are the BEST!!!!!
Love the history of the Rhodes. Wow, the mother of all inventions...
Amazed you resisted the intro to ‘Riders on the Storm’ when talking about the Rhodes’ ability to invoke an ‘elemental’ feel. Really interesting and looking forward to more ! All the best
I'm sure I've heard another youtuber play a similar (but not identical) tune, that he described as 'Riders on the Demonetisation Storm'. This might give you an indication of what happens to musicians who cover that song on their channel, even for a short demonstration of the electric piano patch on a digital keyboard.
The Rhodes is a fantastic instrument. I got my own 25 years ago and I still play it almost daily. I just love it!
The rhodes is one of my most favourite type of electric piano sounds. It's so relaxing 😌
It's so awesome that real electric piano's are still being made! This video is great, i think many have heard the Rhodes sounds, but may not know that it was an actual E-piano. *And E-piano's are still being made!* ❤️
The *_Rhodes MK8_* on the horizon, and then there is the *all-new **_Valente Electric Piano_* which sounds somewhere in between a Rhodes and Wurlitzer but has it own sound.
Then ofcourse there is a great second hand market for Rhodes and Wurlitzer, with specialist that still know how to repair/service them and parts still being made by _Vintage-Vibe_ .
Since a young teenager growing up throughout the 1990's i was totally overblown by the sound of electric strung instruments and all things like the record player & record collecting and why i simply loved the artists and bands of the previous decades. The music of my generation never interested me. Most people my own age didn't understand why i liked old music. It was more than just about the music! it was the technology used and the sheer talent. The hammond organ, the fender rhodes, the mellotron, leslie cabinets the valve amplifiers the pedals the electric & acoustic guitar!
It was the fascination of music boxes and the record player as a child that brought me here, all of which work through the same principle, acoustic vibration!😃
One of my 4 favourite sounds of all time. The Hammond organ the whirly and the Honer electric piano are the other 3 instruments I love more than anything as well
fantastic feature - thx a lot !!! cheers from germany !
Great documentary 🔥🔥
Thank you for this video. Taxi - "Angela" - Bob James, is my favorite song of all-time. It touches me spiritually somehow every time I hear it. I would love to have a Rhodes in my studio. Looking forward to what's coming next!
Right there with you. Amazing song
The first time I heard the Taxi theme as a kid I knew I was hearing a Fender Rhodes. Just wondering if you have ever heard ‘Tel Me a Bedtime Story Now’ - Herbie Hancock off Quincy’s ‘Sounds n Stuff like That’
@@FUNKINETIK 🔥🔥 “Tell me a Bedtime Story”. another great song!!
I had a Rhodes back in the 80's. It was awesome. I sold it when I moved to Florida from NY because it weighed 100 pounds. If the new Rhodes uses the same tines but comes in at under 30 pounds I'm all over it.
Fantastic sound ❤️
I repaired a Rhodes Mk2 belonging to a college I attended in around 2002. I wanted to use it for a project. It was awesome!
Broken tines, several missing felts and a broken hammer. College paid for the parts, and I did the rest. I was proud of that little endeavour! 😎
Bob James is what I call a “Rhodes” scholar. One of many; Herbie, Chick, George Duke, Joe Zawinul, Jeff Lorber, Deodato, and the list goes on. Nothing, and I mean “NOTHING” is like a Rhodes!😌❤️🎶🎹👍🏾
Like the Hammond organ, a classic sound of popular music with a keyboard.
Love the Rhodes piano sound 🥰 Got the XLN Mark One VST plug, and ot is almost as good 👍
My favorite instrument of all time
When I was a kid and first heard the ‘Taxi’ theme on tv I knew the sound I was hearing was from a Fender Rhodes, such a warm beautiful sound.
Just about every synth tone generator has a Rhode sound tone bank in the bank, and I think its probably the most sought after sound. I wish my new Aerphone-10 had it!
I love Rhodes.
Beautiful instrument
I bought a Rhodes Suitcase 73 a couple of weeks ago! Best purchase ever!
One of the most warm and "liquid" sound on this planet
I am a fan of Rhodes too!
I love the Fender Rhodes as far back as I can remember when my friend bought suitcase Rhodes and the great sound live and in the studio. I really like the sound of the earliest Rhodes the "Sparkle Top" it has a grit to its sound I love. Rhodes changed a lot over the years and with the changes the sound of Rhodes changed too. I'm finally retired and learning piano (after 50+ years of guitar) and would love to have a Rhodes, but they are just too dam heavy for me to move around anymore, so I am content with my Keyscape software and Kronos the two have great collections of of Rhodes and Rhodes with effects. Looking forward to hearing and seeing how much the new Rhodes will weight. I'd still would love to have an actual Rhodes.
Miles Beyond by Mahavishnu Orchestra has my favourite Rhodes playing and tone of all time.
Played in a band & the keyboard player had a Rhodes. Don't know the model, but it had a curved top cover. And you fine tuned the intonation by moving little globs of solder on the tines. The sucker was heavy as was the action. It was really hard for me to play but hey, I'm a guitar player. Sounded fantastic though.
Hi Claudio, really love this small documentary. Nice to have a look inside a real Rhodes piano. Any idea about doing a Clavinet (Stevie Wonder) and a Wurlitzer (Supertramp!) small documentary too?
Check out Woody Goss's channel, he has a recent video with a quick overview of the mechanisms inside multiple electric pianos.
Claudio did a video on the Clavinet, be it on playing the song Superstition
Awesome -- love your videos, your playing, and your enthusiasm! I scored a very beaten up Rhodes 88 in high school -- peeling vinyl cover, missing legs. I used metal plumbing pipes for legs to bring it up to standing height for playing in my band. And I cleaned and tuned the whole inside, repairing hammers, replacing felt -- and I tweaked the "aim" of the tines to give it a bright, almost piano-like sound -- not the typical warm, rolled-off high end. Perfect for my 1980-81 high-school rock/punk/new-wave band!!! Long gone now -- but what a great bit of mechanical music-making!!!
Oddly, out of nowhere a week or so ago, I was thinking about how specifically an electric piano generates a tone…. And this pops up today in my feed! Thank you
I wish I had one .... great keyboard
Got my Rhodes Mark 8 preordered. Can not wait!
Really?!!
Really like the sound of rhodes, got a Yamaha MM6 and enjoy that aswell as reface dx
Robert Lamm of Chicago made great use of the Rhodes....From Chicago 6 and 7, you can hear his great playing on the 73 Mark II
Awesome documentary! This instrument just inspires anyone who comes across it to create music and noise in general. My aunt had a fender mark1 73-key suitcase piano in her dining room where the amplifier was also the stand for the piano and growing up I would get so excited to go to her house on the holidays because not knowing how to play, I would sit there and just make random noises and patterns and she always encouraged my creativity. She also played the 88 key version Rhodes piano in her church band. Growing up listening to Stevie Wonder and the doors, every time I hear a Rhodes piano or even visually seeing one I immediately think back to being a kid and messing around on my aunts rhodes piano, Stevie Wonder, Ray Manzarek and the 1970s in general because it was used a lot in television music lol. I think one is even played on the Mr. Rogers theme song. Such an iconic piano, but personally besides my aunts Fender Rhodes piano I have never actually seen any other ones in real life before.
Thanks dude! I love the Rhodes. i wish I had one.
I got to play one of these beauties when I did a bit of work experience at secondary school. We went to a studio and they had one.
One of the most beautiful instruments I think I’ve ever played. I would love to play a Hammond organ. That’s on my bucket list as well LOL. Thank you for this amazing video
my favorite song played with rhodes is Riders on the storm Ray plays the rodhes
Wonder Rhodes ! Thanks Doc !
I love it. I love the story. I looooooooove the song.
I’m about to cut a record and I am going to be using the sound. So I’m studying up on it.
Great video
I thank you for this history lesson on one of my favorite instruments. Grew up on the Sound of Philadelphia and they used either a Fender/Rhodes or a Wurlitzer on nearly EVERY hit they produced. GREAT VIDEO! 👍🏾❤️👍🏾❤️👍🏾❤️
TSOP - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes’ - Wake Up Everybody has a Fender Rhodes right at the beginning. love that tune so much, Teddy Pendergrass voice the voice of soul.
@@FUNKINETIK Was it also a Fender on "The Love I Lost"?
@@poppopw5305 yep sure sounds like it.
epic sound!
Last year I managed to pick up a 1978 Mk 1. It’s probably my favourite thing ever. It’s not just the sound but the history that comes along with it. Great video Dr Mix!
Beautiful sound eveeer Rhodes ❤❤❤
Best TV theme ever.
I'm all smiles ❤
Thanks very educational, nice to see your passion for sound and engineering
I don't think I've ever heard an overdriven Rhodes before, it sounds mean! I fell in love with the Rhodes sound after hearing it used extensively through Zero 7's When It Falls album... some day I'll own one too
Wow, another great video Doc. As an electric guitar player I have always envied and loved the Fender Rhodes sound, If only i'd learned to play those keys..
Wath a nice story
A magical sound
Sweet - I Loved this Video, and the Factory tour in Leeds !
Rhodes always sounds smooth as silk!
YESS! A channel that gives so much appreciation and demos with Rhodes!!! Nostalgic! I grew up listening to this music since I was a baby and The sounds always alway always gave me goosebumps even till this day! It’s the reason I wanted to learn piano!
As of now I will start off with the yahama cp reface mini keyboard since it’s abit more affordable! Will always love that sound!!
This is a very comprehensive quick Coverage of What the Rhodes had to offer and luckily is going to be continued by the great Rhodes Team headed by Jeremy and Dan. Thanks God for Harold Rhodes and Leo Fender putting it all together for us back in the days in Fullerton. great Job Doctor Mix 🙂
I had one - love the Rhodes keyboard 🎹 - you play great 👍🏼
I paid $200 for mine in the 80's. Nobody wanted them then. I still have it and it is a wonderful instrument. I remember one local shop had a couple used Wurlitzers for $100. I was thinking about it but then the shop burned to the ground (Sam's Music Shop in Cleveland, late 1980's, I think).
Nothing has a harder action than a Rhodes. I used to say that it doesn't play the wrong notes because you don't hit them hard enough.
It's interesting how while similar, the Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos have unique sounds. I personally like the Wurlitzer a bit more because it's a little brighter sounding - both are amazing instruments with a fantastic sound.
Normally I want to see a pristine Rhodes, but the wear on your logo is fabulous to the point of making me wonder if that was factory enhancement.
I never knew the Rhodes piano composed of tuning forks until now. I genuinely thought it was a popular synth that tries to mimic the sound of a piano. Great video
In the list you missed the intro of "Sheep" by Pink Floyd. Rick Wright composed one of the greatest Rhodes Piano parts of all modern music history 😊
I can only agree, this Rhodes part of Sheep gives me shivers, it sounds just so great
Beautiful line.
Rhodes was over so many songs and themes from the 60s to the 80s, but can be heard on plenty of tracks in the 90s up to now!