Elton John: Daniel - What keyboard is this?

[Ben Bove]

Elton John clip - what kind of piano is this?  video is too grainy to read anything

1:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ayolhaLMUI

[pianotuner steveo]

Well what you HEAR of course is a Rhodes and a mellotron,but as far as that keyboard,I can't even guess.. are there any Hohner experts here? The only pianet I ever had was a wooden pianet but I think they made black ones too.

[Tehu]

i'm sure its not a Hohner Pianet Keyboard (T), it seem to be like a ''culumbia elepian'' or only a RMI electra Piano (pretty sure, just check the side shape, and the white label on the back, and the ''doubled feet'')

[pianodano]

The case looks like a RMI to me. But I am not certain. I had one for a couple years. Something fishy going on though. Notice the label on the rear is at the lower left , switches to the lower right of the piano until around 3:26 when it instantly becomes applied to the lower left again and it also suddenly appears that no legs are holding the piano up.

[sean]

I think it is an RMI of some sort.
The endblocks (like cheekblocks) look like the RMI photos at:

http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/rmi/index.html  and
http://www.synthmuseum.com/rmi/rmiele30001.html

The rectangular logo label looks similar too.  

...at about 1:29 in the video you can see the clearly-RMI profile.  

So is some sort of RMI Electra Piano...

[sean]

Also the left side logo which jumps to right side logo was a common feature of RMI pianos....

okay just kidding...

The video seems to be flipped in the very beginning and again at the end.

Since Nigel Olsson is a right-handed drummer, I believe the video is in the original format when the RMI label is to the right side of your computer screen.  (So Nigel's right hand is crossing over to the hi-hat on the right side of your computer screen.)

[Ben Bove]

Thanks guys!  Knowing that, I can now see 2:27 R M I on the logo

[pianodano]

Also the left side logo which jumps to right side logo was a common feature of RMI pianos....

okay just kidding...

The video seems to be flipped in the very beginning and again at the end.

Since Nigel Olsson is a right-handed drummer, I believe the video is in the original format when the RMI label is to the right side of your computer screen.  (So Nigel's right hand is crossing over to the hi-hat on the right side of your computer screen.)

Yes. As I remember from my days with a RMI, the logo label was on the lower right  rear.