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My Mark 1 has 73 hand wounded pickups, for a less bright sound but more harmonics. No gear or tools. It took me a complete week but I am glad I took the time for doing it!

I have a couple of low tine which oscillate in a non vertical manner (even seems to rotate) and the sound is weaker.
Is this due to fatigue, aka they are dead?

Also in the trebles, I have one tine with few sustain and which seems to produce 2 close notes according to the beating-like sound. There is no interference with the previous or next one, checked that.
Any idea for this one too?

Thanks!

Thanks all of you for your comments, additional links and oscillo screenshot!

I never said that I intended to connect everything in serial, far from this. Just asking the motivation behind the 6 or 3 parallel choice. But from Sean's reply, I guess everything is related to the final sound color.
Initially wired with group of 3 (total impedance of 1400 ohm approximately), I finally gave a trial to groups of 2, giving me impedance of 3200, which is slightly below my stratocaster pickups' one.
Sounds good with my gear, still too much high frequencies for my taste that my MesaBoogie 5band corrects perfectly

Hello

This is my first post in this forum.

Renovating a Mark 1 (1976), I am now at the pickups rewiring phase. As most of us are using guitar pedals, I was wondering if it could be useful to rewire everything in serial like an old 54 keys so the impedance will be closer to a guitar pickup one. Why Rhodes decided to wire with 6 pickups in serial and then down to 3 with later on when replaced with shorter magnets to reduce decay? I have the choice now so I wonder what could be the optimized solution.

Thanks !