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If Rickenbacker had made an electric piano...
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:47 am
by kennyhowes
...maybe it'd play in octaves, like a 12-string. That is, you strike a key and it's an octave, with real strings (like a Hohner Clavinet or a Yamaha CP70), but an octave, like Gg. So a G triad would sound Gg Bb Dd.
Re: If Rickenbacker had made an electric piano...
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:11 am
by collin
Heavy...
Re: If Rickenbacker had made an electric piano...
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 3:00 pm
by headbanger
Interestingly, Rickenbacker DID make at least 1 electric piano in the thirties, possibly for Harpo Marx. As I understand it, it was an experiment & a 1 off which sat in the showroom (where ever that was) for a few years & never sold.
No one ever new what became of it.
Re: If Rickenbacker had made an electric piano...
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 3:32 pm
by jps
headbanger wrote:Interestingly, Rickenbacker DID make at least 1 electric piano in the thirties, possibly for Harpo Marx. As I understand it, it was an experiment & a 1 off which sat in the showroom (where ever that was) for a few years & never sold.
No one ever new what became of it.
IIRC, it was stolen from RIC years ago.
Re: If Rickenbacker had made an electric piano...
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:18 am
by cjj
So
that's what that thing is out in my garage...
Re: If Rickenbacker had made an electric piano...
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:52 am
by kennyhowes
I was playing some keyboard or other recently that actually had the octave sound I described as a patch...I think it was a Nord. Good stuff, those Nords.
Anyway, it was pretty cool. Filing away for the future.