Taking Sides: Wurlitzer Vs. Rhodes Vs. Yamaha CP Vs. FM Piano

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Lou Reed playing a Klein!

http://brendanburns.com/pics/loureed.jpg

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The Clavinet is something else, really? That being said it sounds wonderful when used by someone like Stevie Wonder (he still occasionally plays it on his recent albums even)

For reference regarding the DX piano/FM piano, see this article about the Yamaha DX7 and see what is written about patch #11: E.PIANO 1
http://www.synthmania.com/dx7.htm

As for the Yamaha CP, it was extensively used by Tony Banks from "And Then There Were Three" through the rest of Genesis' album career (Check out "That's All" and "In Too Deep", for instance)
It was also used by Yazoo on the track "Winter Kills" on the "Upstairs At Eric's" album.

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

And, btw:

Wurlitzer:
"What'd I Say" by Ray Charles
"You're My Best Friend" by Queen

Rhodes:
"Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon
"When I Need You" by Leo Sayer

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"You're My Best Friend" by Queen

okay, yeah, sounds great on there for sure.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 19 February 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Clavinet involves plucking metal strings to make them vibrate like a guitar, whereas Rhodes and Wurlitzer involves hitting metal tines which vibrate over a pick-up. As unlikely as it sounds, the Hohner Pianet has rubber bits that stick to the tines and when you play a note, the rubber part lifts up, lifting the hammer with it, like it's plucked. Which is why there's no sensitivity, you're just picking up and dropping the thing.

And tuning? To tune the wurlitzer, if the note is to sharp, you literally file the metal down. If it's too flat, you add solder.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Monday, 19 February 2007 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

you wanna see some serious fender love? er, maybe not for geir, but everyone else should dig it mightily:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXurhDMrdzs

sooooooooooo awesome.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 19 February 2007 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Wurli wins for me.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 19 February 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Believe it or not, this product doesn't suck.

http://www.keyboardmag.com/story.asp?storyCode=4566

― Burl Ervins (mjt), Monday, 19 February 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ww2.datazap.net/ftp/stevenmorawiec/VVVV/53979.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 19 February 2007 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Wurlitzer I always thought of as the "Supertramp" sound. But now I'll forever associate it with "What'd I Say", knowing as I now do (thanks to Geir) that Brother Ray used a Wurli on that track. So that just reinforces my selection of the Wurlitzer. I really like that warbling "buzzy" sound.

Rhodes tends to remind me of bland '70s fusion. And I'm not at all sure what the Yamaha sounds like; but I do know that I DON'T see the point of an electric piano sounded like an acousic. I guess it is convenient for performers, but that's quite irrelevent as far as listening goes.

― Myonga Vön Bontempi (Monty Von Byonga), Monday, 19 February 2007 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Rhodes wins everytime, i get slightly annoyed by post-70s gil scott heron performances as he tends to use a dx7 instead of a rhodes :P

― X-101 (X-101), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

but I do know that I DON'T see the point of an electric piano sounded like an acousic

I see no problem if it sounds more or less entirely like an acouistic one. Like Steinbergs great "The Grand" softsynth, for instance.

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I had the good fortune last week of being in a studio packed w/ vintage equipment and having someone demonstrate a Hammond B-3 through a vintage Leslie. Absolutely gorgeous sound, loud as shit but clear and fat.

― Mark (Mark R), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I really like that warbling "buzzy" sound.

LOVE it. And on the Wurli I practiced on as a kid, when you pressed on the pedal and turned up the vibrato all the way you could get some gorgeous/bizarre feedback sounds.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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