On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:04:20PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings, > > Thanks to a timely phone call from Marv Smoak, I decided against watering > the unit. Marv connected me to a Rhodes repair service in Yellow Springs > OH, the tech there recommended I leave the unit in the sun for a few days > to dry the inside of the instrument. I removed the cover, set the keyboard > out to dry, and voila, the keys are now all active again (i.e. they return > when pressed). They definitely need adjustment though, which is beyond my > skills. > > I've cleaned the keys and the outside of the unit, it's looking good. Now > comes the moment of truth: plugging it in to an amplifier. However, before > I do that I'd like to check the unit for shorts or other electrical > problems. How should I do so ? With a multimeter, they all have settings for measuring resistance. Plug in a 1/4" cable to the rhodes; with the other end of the cable, touch the black meter probe to the sleeve and the red probe to the tip. If it's wired like I think it is, you'll see zero ohms when the rhodes' volume knob is on zero, and some number more than that when the knob is on 10. As a totally wild guess with some google assistance, I would say a few kilohms would be a sane number. As long as it's between zero and infinity, that's encouraging :) But if you're worried about frying your amp, I doubt there is any real risk of that. For example, an electric guitar is usually wired so that turning its volume to zero creates a short circuit. A guitar amp won't be hurt by this; it just won't make any sound :) > Apparently the unit is not externally powered, all I need to do is > plug it into an amp. Yeah, that's typical of old electric pianos (except those with built in amplification, like the rhodes "suitcase model" which was basically a normal rhodes perched on top of a gigantic combo amp. My mom had one. Sounded great, weighed a couple tons. You'd know if you had one of those!) btw, google turned up this site: http://www.fenderrhodes.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=1c6b12c55ed370704fa3bab5158dbde4 -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
