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I have a 1975 Rhodes I've been slowly rebuilding and it looks like this now!  Probably painted that top 15 times because of how many times I messed up haha.

I'm looking to have a cool vibe for speakers and was looking into some vintage hifi systems.  Like the large advent speakers.  With a receiver or something like that.

How well do you think that would do?  Or if others, do you have any recommendation of what other speakers to use to also get the stereo sound (since I have the modified cheekblock here for the vibrato).

Thanks in advance!

I just got a Wurlitzer 200 and upon plugging it in, there is a loud buzz.  I thought it was the hum so I went ahead and did the buzz killer mod (to no avail).

Here is a video of it:
https://youtu.be/y5GW-39B4-U

My question is, I'm thinking of doing a complete rebuild of the preamp as the tremolo is also not functioning properly - I can kind of faintly hear it here and there in the buzz, but not really..  I am wondering if anyone has had a similar issue here and has fixed it?

Or would I be better off just going ahead and getting a vintage vibe preamp?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Hi there!

Does anyone by chance have a oval shaped power cable for a Wurli 200?  I just picked up this beauty, but with no power cable and I am really excited to play it.  It's killing me to just look at it and not be able to play it!  Haha

They do sell it but it's ridiculously expensive for a power cable.  I know I can switch it to a normal cable but I'd love to keep it in it's original state as much as possible.  So if by chance you have one just lying around I'd love to purchase it from ya

Thank you in advance!

I recently acquired a Rhodes 78 suitcase with the Janus cabinet.

I was running into the issue that the left side of the cabinet was not working.  I had another Rhodes in here and plugged it in and it seemed to work (long story short I realized it was actually a fuse on the Janus cabinet that was blown - but not before changing some of the capacitors and removing the R4 resistor to test)

The Rhodes always worked though and the tremolo seemed to be working but just no left speaker.

I changed the fuse and plugged it in.  All of a sudden, now the tremolo intensity affects only the volume and the tremolo doesn't work (LED is still on though).

Has anyone seen this issue before?

Any help is appreciated.  Checked all my soldering points and nothing is bridging, as well as cleaned with contact cleaner.

I'm at a loss.

The other Rhodes I have here, it's tremolo works fine with the cabinet..

Best,
Marcello