I bought a ticket to see Vulfpeck at the Brixton O2 Academy in October of 2019, but instead of a Vulfpeck gig, it was just Woody Goss giving a 2 hour lecture on the life cycle of the American Woodcock. I was surprised, but I’d be hard pressed to say I wasn’t informed.
That's why I love em'. You can move the tone bars relative to the pickup and change the height of each, and it will dramatically change the sound. Analog baby!
Yeah a lot of people take the sound for granted and think it’s just synthesized (to be fair quite a bit of what they heard might have been by the Yamaha DX) but it has so much more character than that
The resonator bars on a Rhoades absolutely changes the pitch, just not the fundamental pitch ;) the reason people say the rhoades has a bell like tone is because the tine and the resonator bar create what is essentially an assymetrical tuning fork. It has the same basic overtone series as other single fixed point vibrating tine like intruments such as a handbell. The different types and sizes of the resonator bars give the different sounding registers but each resonator bar is made to share the same natural resonance as the tine so it can store the mechanical energy and sustain the fundamental pitch for longer. If you changed those tone bars with something else the tine would likely vibrate at the same fundamemtal frequency but with less sustain and with a radically different sound due to the change in it's overtone series. The fundamental pitch always gets all the attention but every vibration matters when it comes to making a unique sound!
Yeah, we talked resonant frequency and the tuning fork aspect but you can't fit every aspect the design into a short video... Sorry that the edits of that part of our conversation make it sound like the tone bars are less significant than they actually are.
I don’t think the sound would significantly change without the tone bar. I think the construction and material of the tine itself is all the characteristics of the Rhodes sound. The tone bars sole purpose is longer sustain
The universe works in strange ways. This morning, over coffee, I was reminiscing over going down to Chicago to pick up my Markll suitcase from the Chicago Electric Piano company exactly one year ago. Then I swung by CME to buy a phaser for it and that was the happiest I’ve been in a long time. Thanks for reading my mind Woody.
Cool, thanks. Good explanations and great playing. I caught a glimpse of the Philicorda combo organ at the beginning of the video and was afraid that you were going to feature it. I have a working one (circa 1967, I think), but I am probably going to allow my tech friend to cannibalize it for any useful parts before I haul it off to the recycle station. No one should ever have to listen to that sound ever again.
Wow, this is very educational for the vulfpeck fan who has learned about Rhodes, wurli, clavinet from seeing them in the video descriptions. Thank you woody 🙏
Delightful video, dear Professor. 😎 Please make more of these. As I watched the original video to "Cory Wong", I realize now that you were the 4. man in the "String Quartetto" as Jack said in the concert footage. 🤭
"There remains a small niche market for people who like their instruments to break over time"
As a piano tech I felt that
Those are some weird shaped birds
I bought a ticket to see Vulfpeck at the Brixton O2 Academy in October of 2019, but instead of a Vulfpeck gig, it was just Woody Goss giving a 2 hour lecture on the life cycle of the American Woodcock. I was surprised, but I’d be hard pressed to say I wasn’t informed.
American woodcocks are what I immediately picture when I hear The Birdwatcher lol
I feel like this would be something that would be a show on PBS. "Piano Pastime with Professor Goss". Thanks for uploading Woody!
Why does it not surprise me that Woody finds the clearest, most concise explanation of vintage keys I've ever heard?
@@fredfp 😂
I didn’t understand what “electric piano” really meant until now. I had no clue that it was a pickup just like guitars
That's why I love em'. You can move the tone bars relative to the pickup and change the height of each, and it will dramatically change the sound. Analog baby!
Yeah a lot of people take the sound for granted and think it’s just synthesized (to be fair quite a bit of what they heard might have been by the Yamaha DX) but it has so much more character than that
So thankful that Prof G still let me come on this field trip even though I forgot my permission slip!
i'm calling the police
he is a real professor
Definitely
See I was wondering if he actually was a professor, but then he said he was a real professor, so my doubts were put to rest.
Wants proofs
“With more precision than your finger...”
“IMPOSSIBLE.”
Thats true...
"yeah"
3:11 i want this groof full version 😍
0:46 the groove of this shit man
punctuation
*groof*
The resonator bars on a Rhoades absolutely changes the pitch, just not the fundamental pitch ;) the reason people say the rhoades has a bell like tone is because the tine and the resonator bar create what is essentially an assymetrical tuning fork. It has the same basic overtone series as other single fixed point vibrating tine like intruments such as a handbell. The different types and sizes of the resonator bars give the different sounding registers but each resonator bar is made to share the same natural resonance as the tine so it can store the mechanical energy and sustain the fundamental pitch for longer. If you changed those tone bars with something else the tine would likely vibrate at the same fundamemtal frequency but with less sustain and with a radically different sound due to the change in it's overtone series. The fundamental pitch always gets all the attention but every vibration matters when it comes to making a unique sound!
Yeah, we talked resonant frequency and the tuning fork aspect but you can't fit every aspect the design into a short video... Sorry that the edits of that part of our conversation make it sound like the tone bars are less significant than they actually are.
I don’t think the sound would significantly change without the tone bar. I think the construction and material of the tine itself is all the characteristics of the Rhodes sound. The tone bars sole purpose is longer sustain
@@monotronfan1 Correct. That's the point we were getting at while at the shop. Things got edited down to keep things concise.
Drunk on Friday night and really loving this video
This got my wheels spinning like a Mellotron.
Hammond seems more appropriate.
Alas Mellotron always trumps Hammond.
this is such a pleasure it feels like a john wilson work
Run them all through a Leslie speaker and you’ve got gold Jerry, GOLD!
This guy has the right idea!!
PhD in "groof"
The Prof of the Groof
I got my Rhodes fixed there! That place is like heaven.
I can smell this video
The universe works in strange ways. This morning, over coffee, I was reminiscing over going down to Chicago to pick up my Markll suitcase from the Chicago Electric Piano company exactly one year ago. Then I swung by CME to buy a phaser for it and that was the happiest I’ve been in a long time. Thanks for reading my mind Woody.
I’ve heard of of professors before. But I’ve never heard of a precision-fingered professor. Groundbreaking.
4:14 "like the rhodes, it's vibrating parts that are amplified"... damn straight. you really are a professor of the subject
Everyone's vibrating parts should be amplified
0:46 I need a full track of this please
yeah, what's going on here please? 03:13
Would absolutely buy a record of Woody just noodling on a Clavinet.
3:11 I just fell in love with this part and cut it for rington. If you will ever make full version of this masterpiece i'll be very happy
Particularly fond of the fugue at 4:27, not sure if it was improv or not though.
Thank you, professor! We need more electric piano education in our schools
No more government subsidies for passive pianos!
I am excited for your next lecture out in space, Prof. Goss! :)
Strawberry Fields Forever must be the Smoke On The Water of Mellotron.
Watcher of the Skies is the Stairway of the Mellotron
@@lefteyereport6354 I thought Stairway To Heaven [live] was the Stairway of Mellotron.
@@FacePomagranate I thought about that right after posting, I was hoping I wouldn't get called out on it for a few days lol
Wow the mellotron blew my mind. I had NO IDEA it used tapes. That's sooo cool.
It’s so wild how the wurli is very clearly a kiddie student piano and yet look how we’ve fallen in love with them
this place is keyboard nerd heaven and im here for it
It's good that he said he's a real professor
Where in space do you thing you’ll be. I just want to be ready to catch the next vid.
Sweetness! More Mellotron!
Absolutely terrific. Highly enlightening. Thank you, Professor Goss.
Cool, thanks. Good explanations and great playing.
I caught a glimpse of the Philicorda combo organ at the beginning of the video and was afraid that you were going to feature it. I have a working one (circa 1967, I think), but I am probably going to allow my tech friend to cannibalize it for any useful parts before I haul it off to the recycle station. No one should ever have to listen to that sound ever again.
I could watch an hour of this tbh
Wow thanks UA-cam recommendation
The G is back
Regretting not being an Electrical Engineer so I can't just make cartoonishly wild pianos
Pretty sure you don't have to be. Just piece parts together. You need lots of time, space, and money.
Woody that was great!! I loved it!! Miss you seeing you and I really appreciate this video! Love Alison 💜
THE BIRDWATCHER IS BACK BABY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
See ya in space, professor
Why isn't this an hour long PBS special?
Fantastic
Woody please never stop uploading
woo!
Anyone know the tune he’s playing over at 2:24 on the Rhodes?
Sounds like Monk. Check out his album Solo Rhodes on bandcamp!
Thank YOU
super cool! Please make more videos!
SWEET
Thanks!
Clavinets are so cool. They have like, a percussive vibe.
I've been dreaming of stopping in here since I moved to Chicago a year and a half ago. Thanks for the video!
Where's the cp 70?
Having his Tee Time. 🍵
Or 80 for that matter!? Shenanigans!
More please!
Absolutely fascinating! More please
This video is great and hilarious. "Who want the instrument to break over time" love it!
Wood I am so desperate for new content, cmon make make this channel the beautiful freaky showcase it was meant to be!
Why can’t we be friends like you and Kirschemann?
Love this!
I have a sick fascination with electric pianos. My RMI 368 has given me so much joy! And also so much madness! It's like a 6th child!
Thanks professor
Hell yeah! Love you Prof. Goss
This is one of the greatest videos on the youtube. Congratulations
Yes. Just yes.
This is reminding me to finish my repairs on my 1973 buz Watson 🎹 🥴
This is awesome. I’m in Chicago and I didn’t know this place existed
This is shaaawwwweeeeeeeet
thank you for sharing prof!
you're a very good player
Nice chops, Woody.
Full hohner clav music maybe? (please)... so FUNKY!
Fantastic - always wondered how a Clavinet worked - now I know!
Very cool, Woody
Wild Chicago vibe!!!👍good job
Big yes Dr goss
That was the single best video I've ever seen about electric pianos
A perfect video thank u prof
Cool video!
Cool
What a lovely video!!!
Thanks a lot Prof G
Wow, this is very educational for the vulfpeck fan who has learned about Rhodes, wurli, clavinet from seeing them in the video descriptions. Thank you woody 🙏
Woody your videos give me life
This is amazing. Thank you Prof. Goss!
thanks woody. i just bought my first midi keyboard, cool to see how the sounds I can make now without batting an eye were made
Where's the astronomy lesson? I can't find the Venus video anywhere
This is incredible.
magnificent
Love this channel woody. Keep it up.
This is the same vibe as when Mr. Rogers used to take us on field trips to see how crayons are made!
Delightful video, dear Professor. 😎 Please make more of these.
As I watched the original video to "Cory Wong", I realize now that you were the 4. man in the "String Quartetto" as Jack said in the concert footage. 🤭
love all the random facts, and finally seeing the mechanics of the Mellotron was interesting! thank you, Professor
Got this suggested on my home page. Was not disappointed. Great stuff woody!
Does anyone know what professor G is playing at 0:46?
This is so frickin good.
Professor Goss takes us on the best field trips!!
mr goss u are my idol
But what was the Beatly Strawberry Fieldy tapy thingy thing called? :O
Good vid
Loved it
Wait, why isn't this video half an hour long?