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Rhodes Piano Bass
DiscontinuedReleased 1962
The first Fender Rhodes: the bottom 32 notes of a Rhodes in a small Tolex box, designed to stand in for a bass player. It is the reason The Doors could tour without one, and it still sounds fat and round through a decent bass amp.
Specifications
General
- Manufacturer
- Rhodes
- Status
- Discontinued
- Released
- 1962
Keyboard
- Keys
- 32
- Key action
- Hammer-action
- Aftertouch
- None
- Keybed
- 32 full-size weighted keys, E1 to B3 (roughly a four-string bass guitar's range)
Sounds
- Sections
- Electric piano
- Drawbars
- None
- Sound engine
- Electromechanical: hammer-struck steel tines and tonebars read by electromagnetic pickups; passive, needs an external amplifier
- Organ models
- None
- Polyphony
- Full polyphony (32 notes)
Connections
- Outputs
- 1/4-inch unbalanced
Features
- Features
- Bass-range Rhodes, Sits on a tripod stand or on top of an organ, Fibreglass lid on early units
Size & weight
- Colours
- Fiesta Red, Black
Heard on
Artists and records that used it, as Rhodes tells it.
- Ray Manzarek (The Doors) – Bass lines with his left hand while playing organ with his right
More from Rhodes
Discontinued 1969- Keys
- 73
- Key action
- Hammer-action
- Sections
- Electric piano
- Drawbars
- None
—1965