MK3 EK-10

[suitcase'81]

I've read about the mark3,
I've seen pictures of it, but i've never heard one..
I'm really curious what all those added electronics etc.
sound like.

Does anybody have any soundclips of a MK3 EK-10 ?
or is there a Mark3 owner out there willing to record some?

[MikeMalone]

Olivier (polyvoks on this forum) has one with sound clips on his page (which also happens to have the greatest Rhodes collection anyone on the planet has ever amassed!!!!!)

http://olivier-grall.yusynth.net/instruments/Pianos/RHODES/page%20rhodes.html

[suitcase'81]

thanks!

Great site.
Amazing collection!

[Ben Bove]

Well, before you go down that path Olivier has an astounding collection that I can probably never reach, and give him so much respect for it especially in Europe!

but Kenneth Manning has a pretty crazy one that may surpass that..he's got 2 or 3 gold student pianos if that's any indicator.

[suitcase'81]

I have no ambitions of taking that path

I have a stage and a suitcase
and am very happy with that.
My only regret is i don't have more arms/hands so i can play
them at the same time.
Both piano's get played very regularly.
So from the piano point of view. neither have to be jealous.
They both get equal amounts of my time and lot's of love..

I know people with entire Moog catalogs
that never play any of them.
Shame on them!

be good to your instruments and your instruments will be good to you!
I live by this rule.

[Ben Bove]

Oh sorry, I meant the "has the greatest collection ever" phrase.

[suitcase'81]

Don't know if it's the greatest ever but it sure is impressive...

[Emielskey]

check here for a great article about the EK-10:

http://www.majorkey.com/mk2/EK10.html

[polyvoks]

hi guys
thanks to appreciate my collection and to refer to my site

it's right that Kenneth is surely the greatest rhodes collector on planet earth ! congrats and respect Kenneth !

fyi I've also got a prepiano and a student gold sparkle (currently under restoration) not actually featuring on my web page

[McCoy]

Hi everybody,

I own a Mark III ek10, it's working (better: I made it working  ) and I gig with it. I really love this instrument, you can do a lot of funny things with it between a Jon Lord "The Beast"-Sound, some Pop-Pads and funny Freejazz sounds, especially if you use effect-Pedals. With an easy jumpersetting-mod on one of the circuitboards you can send the rhodes sound and the ek10 sound to different outputs and use different effects on each of the sounds. You can hear the ek10 at my homepage: klick here, scroll down and listen to "bridge is blue". At about 2:48 you hear percussions, a spaceship sound and some underwaterbubbles. That's the ek10 running through an Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flanger Guitar-Pedal.

Greetings,
McCoy


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[polyvoks]

hey McCoy
thanks for your post I've listen your music and that's fine congrats ;

please could you explain how ot made the mod to get separate outputs on the EK10 ?

perhaps a little schematic will help
thanks in advance
olivier

[McCoy]

Hi olivier,

the jumperwire is found on the circuitboard, that controls filter and outputmixing (on the left side of the rhodes behind the namerail). Please download the service manual for the mark III ek10 on the fenderhodes-homepage. http://www.fenderrhodes.com/pdf/mark3-service-manual.pdf. The Howto is written on page 18. A schematic for this circuitboard you can find on page 25. Remove the jumperwire between E 50 and E 51 and you will have the rhodes sound on the output jack and the ek10 sound on the jack, that's labelled with "pedal". This jack is normally used to control the volume of the ek10 with a usual volume pedal. You will loose this function with the mod.

You can also change the splitpoint of the mark III, but I haven't done this yet.

Good luck,
McCoy

[polyvoks]

Hi Mcoy
many thanks for this precious information
I've already got the MK3 schematics , so I'll do it asap

keep on "rhoding"

olivier