The Rhodes Piano: Mini Documentary

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On this video:
00:00 Intro
01:06 Birth of the Rhodes
02:17 Doors: Light My Fire
02:45 The 1965 Fender Rhodes Mark I
02:56 What's inside a Rhodes Piano
03:34 Clean Rhodes vs distorted Rhodes
03:58 The Rhodes revolution
04:35 Early Rhodes adopters
05:05 The Rhodes Mark 8

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[lexie]

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 🥳

[friendofbeaver]

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!

[ferox]

I'm a bassist. I'm always happy when the Rhodes colour shows up in bands I'm in. One of my favourite sounds.

[jaydy]

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 ❤

[ProSimex]

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.

[dizzyworldwide]

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.

[Michelmulkens]

the most beautiful piano sound ever - legendary

[WilliamBurnett]

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.

[tolisgamer]

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❤

[BBT]

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.

[CoolDudeClem]

I could listen to this instrument all day with it's silky smooth tones.

[Hun_Uinaq]

Love the sound of that instrument. Guitar player here. I love the way it sounded when you ran it through that amplifier. Incredible!

[sonjaadamson]

Vangelis had one with a custom EQ built in. He played it so beautifully, it almost sounds like a celesta.

[MacXpert]

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!

[baldy]

Love the history of the Rhodes. Wow, the mother of all inventions...

[Valleedbrume]

There is no sound like the Rhodes, just amazing.

[earthstrong]

The tone on that piano is so smooth, was surprised when you overdrived it the sound it made

[AdventureAlbert]

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 :)

[Psychedelicxylophone]

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!😃

[defrigge]

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!