#383291 - 01/31/1407:23 PMRe: Rhodes Early Version 2 Question
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hammer
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Ian, I didn't look that close. I'll find out tomorrow. The owner also has several other keyboards for sale but I didn't look at them. I believe they too are vintage stuff.
#383295 - 01/31/1407:34 PMRe: Rhodes Early Version 2 Question
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hammer
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I just remembered in 1961 I was on the USS Essex. My Mother sent me an electric piano because she wanted me to keep up my playing chops. It folded up in a suitcase type enclosure and had speakers and stood on 4 legs when unfolded. I have no idea what kind it was. When I was discharged from the Navy I gave it to the Ships chaplain who had become a good friend of mine. Wonder what it might have been worth today?
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Originally Posted By: hammer
I just remembered in 1961 I was on the USS Essex. My Mother sent me an electric piano because she wanted me to keep up my playing chops. It folded up in a suitcase type enclosure and had speakers and stood on 4 legs when unfolded. I have no idea what kind it was. When I was discharged from the Navy I gave it to the Ships chaplain who had become a good friend of mine. Wonder what it might have been worth today?
#383303 - 01/31/1408:17 PMRe: Rhodes Early Version 2 Question
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ianmcnll
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Originally Posted By: Fran Carango
Originally Posted By: hammer
I just remembered in 1961 I was on the USS Essex. My Mother sent me an electric piano because she wanted me to keep up my playing chops. It folded up in a suitcase type enclosure and had speakers and stood on 4 legs when unfolded. I have no idea what kind it was. When I was discharged from the Navy I gave it to the Ships chaplain who had become a good friend of mine. Wonder what it might have been worth today?
My first portable keyboard was a Pianet N - that would have been around 1962/3. The volume control was an L-shaped metal rod, operated by the sideways movement of the right knee. I was just a young pup at the time and, at nervous moments, my knee would wobble a bit with the resultant volume variation.:)
#383314 - 01/31/1409:52 PMRe: Rhodes Early Version 2 Question
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ianmcnll
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You had the kneesels, 124?
I played a friend's Pianet T, which did not allow the use of a sustain pedal!!!!!!! Robert Lamm in the band Chicago used a Pianet T on "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
Did the Pianet N support a sustain pedal? The Clavinet had a slider for sustain, if remember correctly?
#383347 - 02/01/1408:03 AMRe: Rhodes Early Version 2 Question
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Duane O
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No sustain on the Pianet. I used a tape echo with a momentary foot switch on the one a used for a short time in the 80's. The Pianet was so much easier to carry than the Rhodes.
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