Re: [linux-audio-user] Rhodes sound

Dave Phillips wrote: Oh yeah! I completely forgot about the broken tines until now! I should say instead, that I remember hearing what now I can ascribe to a broken tine. Sort of a buzzing noise behind the note, or in the extreme case, _only_ a buzzing? Am I on the right track here? The Rhodes electric piano, to me, supports my theory that musical tastes, whether they be in tunings or timbres, are based as much in culture and history as they are in physics. I'm not saying this to be funny (although reminiscing about the Rhodes _is_ funny). As a high-schooler in the jazz ensemble and wanting to play out elsewhere, I found myself in need of an electric piano (this was before good piano synths, around 1978). I went with my dad to look at a used one. I played it, and for a Fender Rhodes, it seemed to my ears to be in perfect condition. But dad, having never heard a Rhodes, thought the sound was horrible! Something interesting about the Rhodes electric piano, I found, was that I played it quite differently from the way I would play an accoustic piano. The expressive character of the Rhodes was concentrated in the low-middle register, where you get that characteristic grunge; unlike a good piano where you could sound beautifull all over the range. When playing jazz, this led me to a quite different style of playing when I was on the Rhodes, instead of an accoustic piano. When playing jazz ballads on the Rhodes, I would always put the weight in the left hand, and be more likely to create secondary melodic lines (or well, just passing tones) in the left-hand harmonization. Larry Troxler