The Fender Rhodes Electric Piano. How it works, a short history, and why it is fantastic.

[@StanPrentice_music]

I bought the Mark II in 1980 and took it on the road all over the country. I sold it in 1986 when I bought a DX7. Wish I had kept it.

[@TheTwangKings]

After 3 decades I finally learned how it works! Thank you! 😊😊😊

[@velartt]

so informative, thank you!!

[@sidylima1984]

Nice vídeo man

[@mechasartre3694]

Mk 1 and two can vary from being basically the same piano in a new shell all the way to completely different key, hammer, pick up and tine construction. There is also extremely little similarity between the hammers of a Rhodes and an acoustic piano.

[@Keyswiz71]

That photo at 0:44 is of Harold Dea Rhodes of the US Navy 1926-2014, NOT Harold Burroughs Rhodes 1910-2000 of the US Army who created the Rhodes piano! 😒 You may wish to re-edit this video as it's a bit disrespectful.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

It's really an "Electric Dulcitone" because it has Metal Tuning forks Struck by Hammers (rather than strings) which are then amplified by Pickups. So Rhodes bought the Dulcitone back to life by Electrifying it.

[@Emmarepairs]

I really liked your summary of the early years, though some of your info about the Mk1/2 is a little off :)

[@RandomMusic-ff2ue]

Emm Kay one? Emm Kay Two?

[@Makraska]

There is nothing Fender about Rhodes.

[@mechasartre3694]

Loads of factual errors here.

[@tenderlyone]

Would you please stop calling the fender wrote a piano? And the first place, there are many differences that make it impossible to compare those to a similarly. Secondly, the technique to play a piano is not the same technique that one develops when playing a keyboard of this nature.

[@EdwinDekker71]

Would you please stop calling the fender rhodes piano a "wrote"? It's a completely different word. Just.....stop it.

[@Nick-pu7lj]

It is a piano