Red Mark II Sales Demo

[james]

Serial Number: unknown (I don't think any of these had one)
Brand: Rhodes
Model: Sales Demo (technically a Stage)
Style: Mark II
Number of Keys: 12
Year: unknown (no date codes inside, but is probably from 1981)

John at Major Key found this in a closet at the old Fender factory and gave it to me as a gift for all of the work I put into the Super Site over the years.  This is essentially a Stage Mark II that was built out of one 12-key damper comb, tonebars from middle C up to B, and standard hammers, pickups & plastic keys.  It has the same namerail as any other Mark II (including the Volume + Bass Boost) and has a Mark II flat top created by sawing the ends off of a full-size harp cover, then fusing them together and hiding the seam with silver racing stripes.  To top it all off, I asked Steve Hayes to give it the Speakeasy makeover, i.e. red tolex + black hardware.  More details are in my review of their work:

http://www.fenderrhodes.com/cgi-bin/products-display?id=9