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Thursday
May212009

Rhodes Electric Piano. On the way. 

Should be here by the end of next week. This is for real y'all! Call us... (866) 283-4601. A gaggle of videos from NAMM 2008 HERE. 6/3/08 UPDATE: Sorry for partially false alarm; gonna take us a little a longer to get 'em, but they're coming.
Sunday
Jan182009

NAMM '09- Take me home, jazzy Rhodes

This ain't no fakey press-photo... I took that myself. The long-awaited new Rhodes electric pianos were present and accounted for at NAMM. They come in three flavors; passive, just like an old Rhodes Stage (around $4000), Active (with an active preamp/EQ circuit, around $5000), and the MIDI version shown here (around $6000). As you can see, the MIDI version has little pitch and mod wheels, as well as MIDI in and out... I'm assuming the MIDI in merges or does program changes or something, as this model doesn't contain any electro-mechanical MIDI elves to play Rhodes parts via computer. Oh yeah, and they had red and white ones there too, which were pretty darn slick. Hey, hey north of 4g's they outta custom paint it to my specs! By the way, I did play one, and I can assure you, you will not be disappointed. It's like buttah. The nice man assured me that they're "currently shipping, but deeply back-ordered". Which I guess means they're shipping, just not to me. Good things my pockets ain't so deep.