Replacement Fender Rhodes Tines (Golden Tines)

[Chris Carroll]

Vintage Vibe will be selling our replacement tines at some point next month in April-

 It's been a long 3 years in unraveling the mysteries of tine making. Unfortunately there was no recipe left for anyone in the world it seems. After years of interviews with techs, scholars, past Rhodes employees, machinist and metallurgists we have a tine that sounds dam good, better than any aftermarket tine we have heard and on par with the originals to the point you cannot tell an original from a reproduction.

We fashioned the look after my favorite era of tine which was 1974-75, I call it the golden era. They plated the blocks yellow zinc for one year and I think they look great, it's always a special occasion when I open a Rhodes and see a full set.  We can sell them with the gold plate or in white zinc plate if you prefer.  Ultimatly the tone is what matters. We hope this will put an end to Rhodes pianos being butchered for tines and to put ebay butchers to bed. In the past it has been a necessary evil, but hopefully with a well priced tine this will end.

We have been testing them in our pianos for some time now and we are very happy with the results. We think we brought to the Fender Rhodes tine what we brought to the Wurlitzer reeds and that is a dead on replacement.

Our Tines are made in the USA with the original Torrington swaging dies made by the head die maker at Torrington before he retired.

[Cormac Long]

Fred,
    This is great. A few of my lower 88 register tines have a figure of 8 tendency and I may try out some of these.

Any chance of a video of these tines in action? I dunno maybe in the harp of a vv EP.. with the lid raised... naturally.

[SWANG]

Fred,
   

i believe "quadrapuss" is chris's nick.  fred typically posts under his own name. 

[Chris Carroll]

 Quadrapuss- is Chris Carroll-

We will be showing the inside of our piano for anyone interested in it shortly. We have been dealing with trademarks and looking into patent potentials before we opened up our ideas. We have all of our trademarks filed and own quite a few at this point, so we will be showing the insides very soon.
Clever designing. Yes we have improved on various aspects, we spent 2 years of R&D in the shop so to speak of late nights and cold beers. Fred and I and the guys have been inspired, tired and wired to make the hippest piano out there. I think we have accomplished our goal, we still have a ways to go and ideas are still blooming.  This month we have sold 10 pianos and we are extremely busy building them and trying to run Vintage Vibe at the same time. It's getting hectic and we are going thru growing pains, need to grow but resorces are tight- Oh, what's a boy to do?

We hope that everyone will be patient and supportive of our efforts.  Be peaceful, live with gratitude and celebrate each moment you have-


Peace and Light, Chris Carroll

[Cormac Long]

Thats fantastic news Chris and a good clarification why the crown jewels have been off the shelf for some time

[Rhodesman88]

Vintage Vibe will be selling our replacement tines at some point next month in April-

 It's been a long 3 years in unraveling the mysteries of tine making. Unfortunately there was no recipe left for anyone in the world it seems. After years of interviews with techs, scholars, past Rhodes employees, machinist and metallurgists we have a tine that sounds dam good, better than any aftermarket tine we have heard and on par with the originals to the point you cannot tell an original from a reproduction.

We fashioned the look after my favorite era of tine which was 1974-75, I call it the golden era. They plated the blocks yellow zinc for one year and I think they look great, it's always a special occasion when I open a Rhodes and see a full set.  We can sell them with the gold plate or in white zinc plate if you prefer.  Ultimatly the tone is what matters. We hope this will put an end to Rhodes pianos being butchered for tines and to put ebay butchers to bed. In the past it has been a necessary evil, but hopefully with a well priced tine this will end.

We have been testing them in our pianos for some time now and we are very happy with the results. We think we brought to the Fender Rhodes tine what we brought to the Wurlitzer reeds and that is a dead on replacement.

Our Tines are made in the USA with the original Torrington swaging dies made by the head die maker at Torrington before he retired.

Now the $64000.00 question....where do we order...and ho much$$$$$

Rob 

[Emielskey]

Nice!

[Tim Hodges]

Now the $64000.00 question....where do we order...and ho much$$$$$

Rob 

I'm looking forward to these! I have a very big need for it too.

[Charlu]

These are great news! Can't wait to buy some of these tines. Will you make a video showing us how they sound compared to the originals like you did with the Wurlitzer reeds?
Keep up the good work!

[Tim Hodges]

Any updates on this?

[SlowMonroe]

I ordered a bunch of tines from VV, looks like some of them are the new gold ones. I'm assuming the rest were just older ones. I'll report back what I think of them. I'm expecting them to match perfectly, just like the VV wurli reeds which are great.
-Eli

[Tim Hodges]

I'm guessing they're the ones we've been hearing in the new VV pianos so from the sounds of it they're pretty good!

[SlowMonroe]

Sorry, I never followed up. The VV tines are very good!

[Tim Hodges]

So they're now for sale?