Little video clip for you ... 1978 Mark I Stage 73

[BackRoomSounds]

Ok I've nearly finished my restoration project on my Mark I (Just the lid to re-tolex and maybe a sparkle to paintjob?)

But heres Barney my friend and keyboarrd player just checking out the action. I will post up a series of pics for the restoration job if anyones interested. Will take me a bit to get them sorted theres lots!  :oops:

Sorry about the poor sound quality its only a digital camera clip..

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=Tail-Feather

Sam :wink:

Hes in a studio....its dark....and hes wearing shades..... :lol:

[ZioKiller]

Well I heard about a fella you've been dancin with... all over the neighborhood...

Amazing!!  

Yes please, post your pics... I always love to see stuff like that!  :wink:

[Mark II]

I second that!
plz post your pictures, Sam.

From that far it looks pretty sweet.
Mark II

[CherryFive]

Damn to bad this video doesnt work for me. Id love to see it.

[BackRoomSounds]

Here you go cherry5 i hosted it for you to download, its just a bit of fun really

http://www.backroomsounds.com/video/tail_feather.avi

On the picture front I still need to take the rhodes outside and get some proper finished shots but I should get on and do the rest and post um up so you can see what a Rhodes Nerd I turned into doing mine up.

My girlfriend used to point and laugh when I came in the house with parts of a piano showing them more love than her.  :lol:  :lol:

Just jealous !!  :lol:  :shock:

[CherryFive]

Here you go cherry5 i hosted it for you to download, its just a bit of fun really

http://www.backroomsounds.com/video/tail_feather.avi

On the picture front I still need to take the rhodes outside and get some proper finished shots but I should get on and do the rest and post um up so you can see what a Rhodes Nerd I turned into doing mine up.

My girlfriend used to point and laugh when I came in the house with parts of a piano showing them more love than her.  :lol:  :lol:

Just jealous !!  :lol:  :shock:

Wow!! Nice playing. Really nice, I dig that jazz-rock style of soloing and playing jazzy type fills. For some reason, I remember watching the video at my friends house a while back (it worked on his PC not mine) and it was a different video! Am I just crazy?

Anyway, nice work and playing. Was your rhodes set up by someone? Did you work on it? Or did just buy it as is? I like the 1978s/79's. I like the key dip and that "crack" at the tines. By the way I think you'd like to hear one of my rhodes in action. This is me on a 1975 wood/plastic hammer rhodes and in it you can hear some of those blues/jazz type licks you were playing. Not many but you can sense that jazz sort of thing.
http://octavecat.homestead.com/Sunshine.mp3

But thanks for putting up that file for me! I saved the clip for future references. Thanks again

[CherryFive]

I will post up a series of pics for the restoration job if anyones interested.

I would be! I love seeing photographs of people's working progress. I should get in the habbit of posting up some before/after sound samples too.

[tjcombs]

I will post up a series of pics for the restoration job if anyones interested.

Yeah man. Do it!

[BackRoomSounds]

Wow!! Nice playing. Really nice, I dig that jazz-rock style of soloing and playing jazzy type fills. For some reason, I remember watching the video at my friends house a while back (it worked on his PC not mine) and it was a different video! Am I just crazy?

Anyway, nice work and playing. Was your rhodes set up by someone? Did you work on it? Or did just buy it as is? I like the 1978s/79's. I like the key dip and that "crack" at the tines. By the way I think you'd like to hear one of my rhodes in action. This is me on a 1975 wood/plastic hammer rhodes and in it you can hear some of those blues/jazz type licks you were playing. Not many but you can sense that jazz sort of thing.
http://octavecat.homestead.com/Sunshine.mp3

But thanks for putting up that file for me! I saved the clip for future references. Thanks again

Its my friend Barney Williams playing he is an amazing talented player. Maybe you saw some other clip of him as there are a couple floating around... heres another http://www.backroomsounds.com/video/barney.ram

My Rhodes has been restored and setup by me learning as I went mainly using this board and site for reference..  
And yes its an early 1978 model but now with a bump mod on the action side of things.

Nice sound clip sounding nice dude..

I will try and get these pictures sized and hosted this week  

[CherryFive]

Wow!! Nice playing. Really nice, I dig that jazz-rock style of soloing and playing jazzy type fills. For some reason, I remember watching the video at my friends house a while back (it worked on his PC not mine) and it was a different video! Am I just crazy?

Anyway, nice work and playing. Was your rhodes set up by someone? Did you work on it? Or did just buy it as is? I like the 1978s/79's. I like the key dip and that "crack" at the tines. By the way I think you'd like to hear one of my rhodes in action. This is me on a 1975 wood/plastic hammer rhodes and in it you can hear some of those blues/jazz type licks you were playing. Not many but you can sense that jazz sort of thing.
http://octavecat.homestead.com/Sunshine.mp3

But thanks for putting up that file for me! I saved the clip for future references. Thanks again

Its my friend Barney Williams playing he is an amazing talented player. Maybe you saw some other clip of him as there are a couple floating around... heres another http://www.backroomsounds.com/video/barney.ram

My Rhodes has been restored and setup by me learning as I went mainly using this board and site for reference..  
And yes its an early 1978 model but now with a bump mod on the action side of things.

Nice sound clip sounding nice dude..

I will try and get these pictures sized and hosted this week  

.

Let me ask you-
Is the early 1978 piano identical to say a 1976? Is this felt on hammers, and bare wood pedestals? Thanks, that would really help!

Best,
John

[BackRoomSounds]

yeah the felt is on the hammers with bare wood peds..

[BackRoomSounds]

Here I did the pics at last, see this thread..

http://ep-forum.com/smf/index.php?topic=1003.msg3327#msg3327

[soukouss]

Hi all !

@ BackRoomSounds,

I see at the very first of the 1st video ( "ray charles' style groove"), Barney plays a glissando with the left hand, very easy. Is it a result of the pedestal mod?

:wink:

[BackRoomSounds]

I guess it helps a little. When I first got the Rhodes you could not do that.

I think its a combination of things that helped free it all up. The main one is sideways slop on the keys this causes them to jam when you try to do that glissando move.

Once I had adjusted the front guide pins to tighen up the slop cleaned everything out and lubed up the action and added the bump mod it was possible to do that glissando slide without to much fingure injury haha.

I think the bump mod is not a must, I think the slop is the main thing but sure the bump does make it easier to get a note out with smaller input.

hope that rambling helped

Sam