Listen to Led Zep's
John Paul Jones' No Quarter
Played with AudioWarrior's HALion 3 STUDIO
ELECTRIC RHODES MKII STAGE PIANO Library
The Rhodes piano was invented in the 1940s by Harold Rhodes,
and its principles are derived from both the celesta and the
electric guitar. The action is similar to that of a conventional
piano, but whereas in a conventional piano each key causes
felt-covered hammers to strike sets of strings, in a Rhodes
piano rubber-tipped hammers strike tuning fork-like
constructions to sound the note.
The actual sounded note is
too soft to be practical so each tine vibrates in front of an
electric-guitar-style
magnetic pickup. The pickups' output is fed to an amplifier which can
be adjusted to produce the desired volume.
The layers are soft and tubular-bell-like, medium and piano like, and hard/loud and distorted piano-tube-like.
Play hard for extra grit.
