Rhodes Mark I early model restoration

Showing nearly all the work for restoring a 1975 Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano.
Songs, in order:
- Dangerdoom: Space Ho's (sampled from Keith Mansfield: Morning Broadway)
- Chick Corea: Tones for Joan's Bones
- Fatima: Biggest Joke Of All
- Jamie Lidell: Another Day

[@cowprez]

Looks like a piece of cake to me. !!!! I'm KIDDING! WAY too many parts for me to even TRY to clean and fix. Good work. I love that you let (I assume) your daughter help you out too. GREAT VIDEO.

[@dcatkinson]

Thanks! Yes, she is great help for things like removing / replacing punchings! We once found a toy piano on the side of the road that was broken, and I taught her to fix it herself.

[@Luigi64]

Great work! I'm still trying to figure out if I should do this with mine. I know it's definitely all dusty inside and needs a good clean and probably at least the grommets replaced, dunno if I'll be up to taking it entirely apart to do a deep restoration like this though since I like how it plays and sounds currently!!

[@vagitonamik]

How long did the whole process take roughly? Great job!

[@dcatkinson]

Thanks! I definitely could be faster - generally takes me one week's worth of full-time hours. Since this is a side-job for me, it takes me a few weeks to get a piano done.

[@samotry100]

Hello
Nice video. I am going to restore my Rhodes Mark I early model myself. Do you have any good websites you can recommend? And where did you get the spare parts. I live in Denmark, so it probably has to ship from the US

[@dcatkinson]

Hi Samir! I learned a lot from Vintage Vibe, from various Facebook communities, and also a great website ep-forum.com --- for parts, you should check out Christian at tinesandreeds.com