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#1
The Wurlitzer Electric Piano / Wulri jack springs
May 09, 2011, 05:21:57 AM
Hello everyone. I recently purchased the whip assembly rebuild kit from vintage vibe. http://www.vintagevibe.com/p-716-wurlitzer-electric-piano-whip-assembly-rebuild-kit.aspx
So, now that I have the action out of the piano and I'm able to pull out the whips one by one, I want to put the new springs in. My old springs aren't bad, but I figure hell if I spent 15 bucks on new ones might as well throw them in.

Anyways, it seems pretty tricky as the old springs are glued in on one side. Unfortunately vintage vibe doesn't have a video that details spring replacement. I was wondering if any of you have experience with smoothly swapping them out. What is a good method for it? Glue solvent? but then I need to clean it out for new glue and I don't know it just seems like a mess. Its a pain enough just scraping those old felts off, jeez!

please make some suggestions even if you haven't done it yourself, because I don't now how to attack this
#2
I had a 1977 stage 73 rhodes, that I had for about a year. after tweaking it for a long time and even putting in the vintage vibes action mod, I couldn't get it to play the way I wanted. (sluggish). finally I decided I wanted a wurlitzer, and put a craigslist ad up. A guy contacted me shortly and I traded straight across for a 1971 wurlitzer 200. I love the wurly, it plays awesome, and sounds so sweeet. I miss the rhodes, and maybe it was worth more? I'm starting to wonder if it was foolish to trade straight across like that. Is a stage rhodes about the same worth as a 200? If it was a suitcase version I'd feel worse about it.
#3
Hi I'm Mike, I'm new here. I bought a Mk1 stage 73 rhodes a few months ago. I believe it is a 1977..? It's the year that they put the felts on the bottom of the hammer part, not on the pedestal. I've enjoyed it pretty well but there are a few things that irritate me.
First of all the action for the middle octaves is pretty sluggish. It takes some finger strength to play the middle area, whereas either end is much less so. this is also applied to the volume!
The bass and high end are a bit louder then the middle. I don't know if its just that way naturally. even when I try backing the pickups away from the high end, still pretty loud up there.
It also seems pretty muddy when I play a chord, the sound sort of blends into a slurry harmonic mess. I played a wurlitzer at my university, and it blended chords much better. I was even tempted to sell my rhodes to purchase a wurlitzer. I want to get the mud out.

But I've decided to try to try to fix the rhodes up a bit. I just don't really know what to do. I'm planning on getting the miracle mod , and maybe change pickup placement. when I first got it I moved the pick ups closer and a little below the tines for a louder growly sound. Since I thought it was muddy before that, I thought closer might be less so. It might be a bit less muddy then before, can't remember. I just want it to be the instrument I've always dreamed it to be, and I think it can get there. Just need to do the right things. Thoughts and feelings?

oh and the volume knob works backwards.. why would that be? 1 is loudest and 10 is silent. A preowner messed with the pots or something?