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Inspired by Duosonic's thread in the effects section. If you have any, post them up. Who knows? We could all be playing Rodgersaphones in fifty years.


The Electric Piano:

Completely different from your cheesey baseball wind-up electric piano affairs, this would be a real, grand piano with steel/nickel strings, and about a hundred and fifty pickups to cover them all. Plus, the strings would all be locked down and clamped at either end (a la Floyd Rose) and there'd be a huge big whammy lever (although a pedal would probably be more useful to a pianist) that's really well engineered so as to be quite light instead of insanely heavy. You could play the piano, overdriven, do big fuck off chords and huge sounds, and then dick about with the whammies too. It'd be awesome. There'd be a custom amp designed for it (rated a bajillion watts (obviously)), and an arsenal of speakers (probably: 2 x 15", 4 x 12", 4 x 10" and a dozen tweeters) that are suspended beneath the piano, pointing upwards into the strings (stupid feedback). Sound would be prjected to the audience through the usual means of a lid/soundboard.


Accordian Shoes

Shoes, that are actually tiny accordians, so the make sounds when you walk about the place. not really an instrument, these, but I still really want them.

Genius Ideas! well not the shoes...but the "electric piano" could be awesome sounding.

Brothers and sisters, the future is already here:

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I thought I saw something like this or had the dream along those lines. I think its a pretty cool idea, would certainly require multiple pickups for all the strings and a frequencies.

I have this idea about recreating an electronic drum kit on an actual drum kit. Mount speakers in them and use the timbre in it. Program the drums as normal then play them back through each individual speaker on the kit mic'ed up like it would be normally.

Holy Fuck.

benecol wrote:Brothers and sisters, the future is already here:

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hahaha. Thats some epic shit.

benecol wrote:Brothers and sisters, the future is already here:

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BacchusPaul wrote:Inspired by Duosonic's thread in the effects section. If you have any, post them up. Who knows? We could all be playing Rodgersaphones in fifty years.


The Electric Piano:

Completely different from your cheesey baseball wind-up electric piano affairs, this would be a real, grand piano with steel/nickel strings, and about a hundred and fifty pickups to cover them all. Plus, the strings would all be locked down and clamped at either end (a la Floyd Rose) and there'd be a huge big whammy lever (although a pedal would probably be more useful to a pianist) that's really well engineered so as to be quite light instead of insanely heavy. You could play the piano, overdriven, do big fuck off chords and huge sounds, and then dick about with the whammies too. It'd be awesome. There'd be a custom amp designed for it (rated a bajillion watts (obviously)), and an arsenal of speakers (probably: 2 x 15", 4 x 12", 4 x 10" and a dozen tweeters) that are suspended beneath the piano, pointing upwards into the strings (stupid feedback). Sound would be prjected to the audience through the usual means of a lid/soundboard.

Th e simple part of your first rant already exists, it's called an electro-mechanical piano like a Rhodes. It makes sound like a regular piano but with pickups and sort of like you described.

All that other shit you're talking about, i don't know. But electro mechanical pianos have already been in existence for a long time. Rhodes, Wurlitzer, etc.

yeah, apart from the whammy stuff the rhodes kind of fits that bill. it works on a similar principle to an electric guitar, you can hear it (albeit quietly) unplugged and whack it through any effect you like amplified. the 'suitcase' models had a stereo panning tremelo and sat on their own big speaker. they have a lid that the legs go in making the whole thing portable (even though you need two people to lift them).

i want those fucking wah shoes though, i NEED them!

benecol wrote:Brothers and sisters, the future is already here:

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That is full of win.

hlysht it's amazin'!!!

I'd like to see the Ondes Martenot enter MY reality

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love that cellist's vibrato.

That implementation for vibrato is immense.

I love ondes martenot.

I do that vibrate thing on piano without thinking about it, it would be awesome for it to actually work.

There's a serious lack of instruments played with the feet. I remember seeing Eric Johnson live a few years back; his bass player had organ footpedals on his board that he used to play counterpoint lines.

I think there could be a more elegant way to get the same effect - something like a piano played with the feet that you could use concurrent to other instruments.

the electric piano idea, not such much a rhodes or wurlitzer but the yamaha CP-70.

the CP-70 is in essence a grand piano fitted with a series of electric pickup. it has the same harp/string assembly as a grand piano. unfortunately, it weighs a fecking ton, due to the harp and the need for it's to be quite strong due to the tension and for resonance.






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benecol wrote:Brothers and sisters, the future is already here:

[GVideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9705908838[/GVideo]

Tramp boots of the future!

DuoSonicBoy wrote:There's a serious lack of instruments played with the feet. I remember seeing Eric Johnson live a few years back; his bass player had organ footpedals on his board that he used to play counterpoint lines.

I think there could be a more elegant way to get the same effect - something like a piano played with the feet that you could use concurrent to other instruments.

There'll be a condition on sale of the Rodgersamapianophone that Eric Johnson isn't allowed anywhere near one.

Progrockabuse wrote:the electric piano idea, not such much a rhodes or wurlitzer but the yamaha CP-70.

the CP-70 is in essence a grand piano fitted with a series of electric pickup. it has the same harp/string assembly as a grand piano. unfortunately, it weighs a fecking ton, due to the harp and the need for it's to be quite strong due to the tension and for resonance.






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fixed. Embedding doesn't like youube uk, so you have to delete the uk. from the start of the link.

jcyphe wrote:

BacchusPaul wrote:Inspired by Duosonic's thread in the effects section. If you have any, post them up. Who knows? We could all be playing Rodgersaphones in fifty years.


The Electric Piano:

Completely different from your cheesey baseball wind-up electric piano affairs, this would be a real, grand piano with steel/nickel strings, and about a hundred and fifty pickups to cover them all. Plus, the strings would all be locked down and clamped at either end (a la Floyd Rose) and there'd be a huge big whammy lever (although a pedal would probably be more useful to a pianist) that's really well engineered so as to be quite light instead of insanely heavy. You could play the piano, overdriven, do big fuck off chords and huge sounds, and then dick about with the whammies too. It'd be awesome. There'd be a custom amp designed for it (rated a bajillion watts (obviously)), and an arsenal of speakers (probably: 2 x 15", 4 x 12", 4 x 10" and a dozen tweeters) that are suspended beneath the piano, pointing upwards into the strings (stupid feedback). Sound would be prjected to the audience through the usual means of a lid/soundboard.

Th e simple part of your first rant already exists, it's called an electro-mechanical piano like a Rhodes. It makes sound like a regular piano but with pickups and sort of like you described.

All that other shit you're talking about, i don't know. But electro mechanical pianos have already been in existence for a long time. Rhodes, Wurlitzer, etc.

That's not what I'd be after. I'm talking about a full grand piano, with a metal frame and everything. Basically, I want the electric guitar/acoustic guitar equivalent of the piano.

would be cool------
imagine the huge sound