Members willi Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Check out this pair of very special Fender Rhodes Stage 88s for the band Keane. They look like a Rhodes, they sound like a Rhodes (sometimes) but wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -groovatious- Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 he he . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carbon111 Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Wow... I'm speechless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members r33k Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 All that {censored}ing time, effort and expense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members XorAxAx Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Lame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rj.phila Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 see, you guys are haters. all this time ive been saying that if you got rid of the tines, hammers, and felts, youd have a REAL instrument. finally someone listened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeronyne Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 I wouldn't mind seeing a whole line of fake cases like this. It's a great idea since the user interfaces on modern keyboards look like they were designed either by a blind car customizer or an engineer with the front half of his brain missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Son of HuHefner Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 My mighty Ford 150 is powered by a Prius Hybrid engine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jrkirkish Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 That is {censored}ing stupid. Now it's time for me to go back to working on that mellotron project of mine, where I take apart an M-Audio 61 keyboard, have it trigger an Akai S5000, all in a mellotron cabinet... Hmmm... /At least I'm not wasting a real mellotron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Birdienumnum Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 We gutted two Stage 88s Noooooooooooo . . . A Stage 88 was my first keyboard (apart from a piano) when I was very small . . . I have great sentimental attachment to them . . . noooooooooooo . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Birdienumnum Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 [waiting for Diametro to post Stage 88 going into grave excavation] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members suitandtieguy Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 that is the dumbest thing i've seen this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kilon Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Looks like a Trojan Horse. Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gilwe Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 very, very stupid I wouldn't expect such a stupid thing from a band who based their sound over a pure Yamaha CP. What's next ? a CP70 having its guts out so it can contain an Emu sampler ? Reminds me of that picture of Alicia Keys with the Yamaha JP8... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members greaseenvelope Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 I hope by "gutted" they mean "saved up all the parts to repair broken Stage 73s". Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just build a new case instead of gutting an old one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roald Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 hmmz...yeah I saw that before. I don't really care whatever they play as long as they sound good. Initially the band were also using an ARP Pro/DGX onstage which wasn't a good idea really. The real problem is that live, they were kind of a disappointment to me as too much comes from laptop backing and they sounded constrained. I have no principal problems with laptop backings on stage but here, the fun and drive got lost in the performance. Songwise they are one of my favorite bands now. Some harmonies are just unreal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Allerian Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Who are they supposed to be fooling here? Does the audience notice or care about the shape of the keyboard case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Since there was a lot of bitching about the Rhodes key quality (and resulting aches) I think that might've been a consideration. Still, they should've built a new case instead of gutting two originals, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Metrosonus Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just build a new case instead of gutting an old one? it would have been easier to vacuum form one .. that is.. worthless. that reminds me of the lame mods the emo kids would do to tape players to fit ipods into them. just for the hee hee i'm retro giggles. I think it smacks of trying too hard. speaking of your melotron .. why dont you build something like the guy who made his out of walkmens using looping tapes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bones Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 I think it smacks of trying too hard.Exactly. Just a stupid thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mate_stubb Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Lame poser shark jumping for sure, but I don't weep for any Stage 88. Most of you horrified people have never played or owned a Stage 88. Every one I ever tried to play was almost unplayable. I carried one on the road for 4 years and hated it. I made all the pedestal mods, worked on that action for weeks, and it still sucked. A Suitcase 73 on the other hand, might have a 1 in 20 chance of being a nice instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members manoeuver Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 keane's melodies make coldplay sound like the beastie boys in comaprison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KEB Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 Well..... maybe they were just a couple of dead, waterlogged, rusted out junker 88's they picked up for cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arctic88 Posted December 13, 2007 Members Share Posted December 13, 2007 What's the deal with all the folks trying to hide the fact they're playing an electronic keyboard? I saw an off-Broadway Ray Charles tribute show here in wk earlier this year and the orchestra pianist had a Roland digital piano in a grand piano shell. I'm not so much concerned about an old keyboard being gutted but more about the trend to put a synth in a piano. I read an article in KEYBOARD long ago that pertained to sampling orchestral instruments and it mentioned the way in which a study was performed wherein a sampler was used to play a passage and listeners deemed it fake sounding. The same passage was then played on the same sampler but with a violinist miming the part and everyone was convinced they were hearing a real violin. I've never seen a stack of synths on a stage and dismissed the act without LISTENING first. I think we can trace this back to MTV if we really need someone to thank. VERY weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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