> Some might ask: does the world really need another Fender Rhodes piano library? I might even be one of them.
However, I am also in the very fortunate position of owning a ‘real’ Rhodes Mark I Stage 73. But the truth, in fact, is not quite as straightforward as you might think.
As any ‘tine-ophile’ (my made-up term for Rhodes lovers) will be aware, there are differences in tone between models and across different dates of a manufacture. To give you some measure of this, each key relies on a tone bar, tine and pick-up to generate its tone, and altering their relative positions dramatically alters the sound (especially the attack) of the note; and this is before you get into the world of hammers, dampers, grommets and springs or delve into how they are actually recorded.