![]() Entirely analogue, it could be tuned and tweaked relatively easily and was incredibly responsive to different playing styles. Far more importantly, however, it had a unique sound that would quickly come to be a staple of jazz, rock and pop music. The Rhodes, though itself a serious piece of furniture, was designed to be more portable. In that pre-digital age, moving keyboard instruments from venue to venue was impractical, since they were either conventional pianos or hefty beasts like Hammond organs with Leslie speakers. ![]() The Rhodes electromechanical piano was created in the late 1960s by Harold Rhodes, initially in partnership with Leo Fender.
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