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Thanks, Kyle. That is high praise. You are making the best of your space and it is exemplary. I enjoy your music making greatly. Cheers.

There is a little bit of Avant-Garde in there... mainly from getting lost in the form and having to recover! Jazzzzzz!!.

He is an amazing musician, and I admire him greatly.

@ I’ve been a fan since the mid 80’s. I wrote some pretty decent tunes back at that time in that mode, but they’re long gone since I had to save to floppy disk in that era!!

There is a bit of Ring Modulation in there too, but the Lexicon is the main source of that phat reverb. Thanks for your interest.

Ha ha. Thank you very much. There are times when sitting in this den when I can smell someone else's poo... for real.

Thanks, Kyle. I am going to upgrade the 54 Mark ll with an Avion Preamp and some new hammer tips. I have it playing through the A-100, but that means it doesn't get played very often. They are offering a drop in replacement, although I had to bypass the "sliders."

Man, Jay's Rhodes was in bad shape physically. It played okay with his voicing, and all the notes worked. Some sticky notes up top, but it was the only one I had to completely disassemble down to the case. And it took forever to wire brush clean the tone bars and replace the screws and grommets. It was only later I decided to put a Retroflyer Preamp in it. AT first I just took out the Bass Boost which is useless anyway, and put in a 15K volume pot with zip wire. Played it through the Leslie 142 with an organ interface, and with tube preamp and the doppler spinning horn, I should have just left it alone. but it was good discipline. A few damped notes now, but mostly acceptable. This one sounds good when you really hit it hard, play hard and make it overdrive. And the action can take it.

@ again Jay would be proud to know the care you have given in the restoration of his instrument!

Jazz is good!

Yes. I have been wearing my 1985 class ring since. Never take it off. Thanks for your interest.

Thank you.

I got a hair cut.

The Presonus Audiobox is about $50.00 used, and I have about six of them. Mix first, then stereo in. This set up is the first X/Y miked Rhodes I have recorded. This Rhodes also is close mixed with two vintage Shure Unidyne vocal mikes, and they sound great straight into the Audiobox. I am trying to make this space more musician friendly for LIVE play, thus creating bass, drums, piano, and guitar live in an acoustic like mix that is getting recording without a console. It is working here pretty well. Plans to record some tracks with which to play, so I am practising doing that. I really need two EV 15" three way PA cabinets, because if you run bass and drums, you need that sounds reinforcement. But a little at a time. I was amazed that I could get the Rhodes to record well this way, but that is the difference between the Stage model and the Suitcase. 2 12's in the bottom enclosure, but with the speakers underneath, I have trouble hearing or rather feeling the piano like my others. So it is a different recording concept, but the Rhodes is translating well in either situation. I can plug in two additional speakers to the Rhodes bottom amp and put them wherever I want. In the meantime there are two huge resistors handlling the missing speaker load. Thanks for your interest.

Thanks! I need to use mine more often.

The answer may lie in the key bushings, the red Steinway felt in the neck of the key that sits on the pivot post.Some had deteriorated, so I had to learn how to replace them. Bought some "caul's" proper adhesive and a roll of new felt. Some of these fail and make the keys stick. If you replace them, it brings the key back into regulation. Also on this Rhodes, I have a few dampened notes, because I never had to shim the key heights to get an even keyboard. I tried to even out this keyboard, but bailed out and gave up. So the escapement is out of whack. I need to level the entire keyboard back to the measurement that Vintage Vibe gives with a tape measure. Front rail to key top.

@ thanks a lot for your insight. Coincidentally, I brought my ‘77 to a pretty renown tech here, and he told me some of the same things concerning the key bushings. So that’s interesting. He also will do the miracle mod for me again as he said mine was done with kinda not so great materials. He also pointed out a lot of things, like the action rail not being properly tightened and such things, that might affect the overall playing feel. Imma see how it goes.

Yeah, I am a bit over the top with sound...

That is the biggest challenge of this room. The volume of bass changes almost by the minute from overhead aircraft and local freight trains. One time it will be loud through the amp, and last night was very quiet. I have the levels set on the module and into the mixer, so finally it got balanced pretty well, but if acoustically the bass sound through the amp is quiet or loud, I compensate with my hand velocity throwing it off a bit.

Yes, but I will find a better camera angle in the near future. USB cables it seems (for the webcam) can't be too long, so I am limited. thanks for your support.

That would help the overall presentation, wouldn't it? But I had minor surgery on my armpits and I can't shower. Should heal soon.

@@Par3pio2 presentation is perfect as is

Hey Debbie. yes, I experienced this SAME issue. The side panels (2), after the screws are taken off, have to SLIDE with up or down, and then they pop right off. That is the solution. Hope this helps.

@ thanks for your reply after replacing the battery- -no sound. I did a soft reset-nothing. Have any idea what else I can try. 😢

@@debbiegolden-alvarez9555 On mine, which has to be about the same age, the capacitors on the power supply board often are the first things to go. My display quit after it sat for a year. I need to try it again. There must be a pro tech somewhere that easily could fix it.

@ thank you for your reply. I’m getting desperate they’re falling by the wayside. Can’t get a returned call. Crossing my fingers!!!!!!🤗🎹

I went to the trouble of replacing all of the key contacts on My PC-88MX only to have it die a year or so later. Still sitting in my garage, but I just can't throw it out. Someone could fix it. Where are you located?