If Rickenbacker had made an electric piano...

[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.

[collin]

Heavy...

[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.

[jps]

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.

[cjj]

So that's what that thing is out in my garage...

[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.