home at last

sore hands playing beautiful chords...

the same hands i just used to screw back in those 10 screws in the side of my suitcase rhodes piano...

playing with that beautiful rich sound... the vibrato light blinking at me even now...

you can't believe how happy this makes me...

...

early on in mine & mars attempt to fix this beast he brought back a fuse for the plug from his house... just to check, because it would be mad to find out it was the plug after taking it apart...

anyway, even with the working fuse the rhodes remained steadfastly silent...

so i was reading this thread over on the rhodes site and it suggested i amplify my rhodes just like a guitar, leave it powerless and take an output from inside the upper half (the harp)...

so as an interim thing i thought well that would be nice... to be able to hear it amplified at least until we can fix it... so i pull over my mixing desk, feel around on the floor for a power lead and pick up the rhodes kettle lead... plug it in to my mixing desk and nothing happens...

because the rhodes kettle lead has something chunky and odd at the rhodes end of it... so while we checked the plug end we didn't check the rhodes end...

so i suddenly got very excited, plugged a different kettle lead into the poweramp bit of the rhodes that has been separated from the main beast... immediate red light and activity...

i lean the amp bit against the rhodes, plug in the speakers, go slightly mental trying to find the connector lead and eventually set it all up, switch it on again and my fantastic little rhodes piano is purring away being as sexy as it ever was...

albeit with potentially cat frying amounts of electricity open to the world so i write a quick post on the rhodes site to spread the word, settle down to screwing it all up again and that leads us back to where we began...

sore hands playing beautiful chords...

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