Hey thanks for the feedback. I have been taking the harp upright and tuning from there. I spent a couple of hours on it this morning tuning chords by ear.
Its really like tuning a guitar with crap intonation you have to tune chords to get it to sound right. Or at least I do but I am super picky about pitch. Funny thing is the F# notes in two octaves were on pitch according to the tuner but in fact were flat in relation to the rest of the notes in there respective octaves, I had to adjust the notes accordingly.
Also the pitch changes when the harp is in position and struck by the hammer as opposed to up and plucked by hand.
Damn thing is a PAINNN. But it sounds so sweet when it is right!!
I have a 75 Mark 1. First two months that CBS owned them. The hammers are half wood, half plastic.
Oh yeah the one area I can not get in tune is the lowest two octaves the notes all have a funky beating oscillating thing that makes it hard for me to hear the pitch. Any suggestions?
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Originally Posted by rjd2  that's what he did, and it did go wrong.
i do rhodes(and anythign else, acoustic piano, harpsichord, etc) like this: take the octave from C2 to C3. do this to 440. basically, do the rest of the instrument by octaves/beats or dissonance, however you like to see it. done. good luck.
also, you know that you can tune the lower 1/3 of a rhodes by physically pulling the tine above the tone fork and sliding the wire manually, r ight? saves time. |