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My MkV has a too deep key dip. Something like 12mm (1/2"). Even after I took of all paper shims from the balance pins and rebalanced the keys with less papers (I know thats not the way to adjust key dip, but there was a lot of paper shims). Now I'm playing around with a thin felt over the  stripe felt (mark V style). Kind of works... What do you guys think? I hope you can understand my english.
Thanks, Kim

I was helping a friend of mine to put his Mark II in working condition for a recording.
His rhodes got 7 bad pickups and we don't have good ones available for replace.
So we swap the dead ones with the last octave pickups.
But then the output got too weak.
So i bypassed the last dead pickups with a wire connecting the last good pickup (F#) coil winding end with the screw at the right of the last pickup (where the red and black wires are connected) And I got a good output again.
Can I cause any damage by doing this?
Sorry for my english....I hope you can understand...

I'm looking for an eq pedal for my rhodes.
What range should be more efficient?
7 band: 100hz 200hz 400hz 800hz 1.6khz 3.2Khz 6.4khz
or
10 band: 31,25 62,5 125 250 500 1k 2k 4k 8k 16k

Any suggestions are welcome
thanks,
Kim

What about this rhodes?
Mark I, mark V?
You can see the rail at 3 minutes....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6d4_7QRn8Y&feature=related

Hi guys,
first of all,  I want to say that I'm really thankfull for this forum and with your help I acomplished a lot with my first rhodes (MKV).
Now I really like my rhodes sound, but I can't achieve proper damper on the bass register.
The dampers bounce as the hammers bounce and make those after touch noises.
I read a lot about it in the forum and in the Manual. I did try the two ways to bend the dampers, replace the damper felts. And now I don't know what to do. Any sugestions?
http://soundcloud.com/kimjinkings/rhodesdamper#

I installed the lowest F tine(73 keys) a little longer than the chart recomends. But even if I put the spring as far as I can it's still too sharp.
the tine and the spring are both new. Now I'm afraid to cut cut the tine in the recomended measure and gets even sharper.

I just take it off my old hammer tips. Now I'm cleaning the hammer with a X-acto knife but I can get rid off all the glue and ruber of the old ones. Vintage vibe sad the needs to be completely clean. Should I install the new hammer tips even the hammers are still a little dirty?

I'm new in the forum. I'm Brazilian...so, sorry for my english.
I'm looking to replace some parts of my rhodes mkV.

Hammer tips: Vintage vibe or the new rhodes hammer tips?

Tines: VV or the new Rhodes tines?  Do those will sound like my other tines?

damper felts: mkv looks thinner then the others. Do Thicker felts will fit?
Actually I don't know if I need to replace those.. because I don't have damper problems, just noise in the bass when release a note (when damper hits the tine)

I'll be thankful for any help.
Kim