Sunday, December 15, 2013

Tribute: The Fender Rhodes

Divine Blessing! A free 1970’s Fender Rhodes. I’m so giddy.

My girlfriend  just found found me a legendary Fender Rhodes keyboard. For free. She’s the best one ever. (The girlfriend, I mean… not the keyboard.)

The Rhodes is an electro-mechanical keyboard. It gets its sound from vibrating metal tines, and it was the bee’s knees back in the day.

Since then its sound has been the target of plenty of digital emulators. But my Rhodes has personality. Some of the keys buzz, and one of them doesn’t even work. Emulate that!
  
The Rhodes in action with:

         




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