Fender Rhodes Electric Piano And Electric Zeta Violin: Mineo's Brian Purwin On Two Of His Many Instruments
Brian Purwin from Mineo plays everything from electric piano to violin to bass guitar and is heavily responsible for the wide range of sounds you'll hear in Mineo's music, but here, Purwin concentrates on his Fender Rhodes electric piano.
Pat Ogle is on the road in Miami, Florida with Brian who also talks a bit about his primary instrument, the violin. Brian plays a Zeta electric violin, and though he's admittedly new to the electric realm, he knows what sounds good. Keep it on Gearwire.com for more On The Road with Pat Ogle.
BRIAN PURWIN: I'm Brian Purwin and I play keyboards, keyboard bass, and violin.
PATRICK OGLE: Okay. So first of all, talk about the Fender Rhodes.
BRIAN PURWIN: I've been looking into getting something that sounds quite like it but I don't know. There's something about it that's just got a vibe when you walk in with it and people like to see it. I love to hear it. It's a serious pain in the... -- Can I swear?
PATRICK OGLE: Yes.
BRIAN PURWIN: ...ass. It's a serious pain in the ass...
PATRICK OGLE: It is.
BRIAN PURWIN: ...carrying it around because I have the one with the suitcase so yeah. It's a good thing I have a Station Wagon, and it's kind of been torn to pieces but it sounds good.
PATRICK OGLE: Why do you think -- I mean a lot of other things have managed to emulate the sounds pretty decently like old, old amps but why can't -- why does it seem like they can't get that? Any ideas? Any...
BRIAN PURWIN: No.
PATRICK OGLE: ...wild ideas?
BRIAN PURWIN: Honestly, I'm a born and raised violinist so the whole technology thing is new to me. I'm not really --
PATRICK OGLE: Well talk about --
BRIAN PURWIN: The violin?
PATRICK OGLE: Yeah. Talk about the violin.
BRIAN PURWIN: Well, this is my first electric violin. I've never had one before.
PATRICK OGLE: What kind is it?
BRIAN PURWIN: It's a Zeta.
PATRICK OGLE: Mmm hmm.
BRIAN PURWIN: It's about, I don't know, it's fantastic because I don't have to deal with feedback really, not to deal with acoustic pickups breaking on me, and I don't have to take out more expensive, fragile acoustic violins. I don't have to deal with that, which is nice, and you can crank the overdrive and just blow people's ears out it seems. That's pretty sweet. You can control the sound better.
PATRICK OGLE: It sounded good.
BRIAN PURWIN: Thanks. Well actually I'm playing with half of my bow hair right now, so it's going to be a little bit empty. It usually would be quite a bit fuller.
PATRICK OGLE: I thought that was on purpose.
BRIAN PURWIN: No. [LAUGHS]
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