Rhodes

The new Rhodes Mark 7 combines the classic Rhodes tone with new modern features. Especially high tech is their infrared MIDI technology which works based on infrared sensors for fast, accurate MIDI transmission. It's nearly "light speed."  

At Winter NAMM 2008, Rhodes had some incredible new Mark 7 pianos with keys that feel like they're made out of the flesh of angels. Improvements have been added, but nothing has changed about the fact that Mark 7s are authentic Rhodes pianos.  

Gearwire Gallery turns back the clock to 1977, where we extract this Rhodes ad from an April issue of Contemporary Keyboard magazine. Obviously, the name stood the test of time just as well as the Rhodes advertisement...  

The Most Serene Republic are a Canadian band formed on the Arts and Crafts label -- and they are the first band on the label not connected to Broken Social Scene (Kevin Drew, Feist). They have two full lengths. Underwater...  

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...  

The new Rhodes will be debuted at WNAMM 07. Will it be a ROMpler or will it be a mechanical piano like the original rhodes. Well we had a conversation about that and about some of the other new features of the new Rhodes Piano....  

After we heard the new Rhodes on the first day of the show, we knew we had to come back and get some more sounds. So after the show had died down a bit, we returned to the Rhodes booth and were able to get some line source...  

At this point we still haven't gotten the official specs, but we did get some nice sounds from the brand new Rhodes Mark VII. Well, what do you think? Is it a ROMpler, physical modeller? One thing is for sure. It does not...