As a guitar player, I wish all keys players were as mental as this chap… would make things so much more fun 😝 especially as it’s good to have someone in a band who understands electronics etc. I understand i need to give it to someone else to deal with. Enjoying your vids!
Excellent! How much fun it must be to tweak the sounds live while playing in front of the speaker, to feel the vibration and response of the keyboard ...? It's even a joy to only watch this video! As we could clearly see the digital technology can be truly a friend in order to achieve some great hybrid setups in combination with (modificated) vintage gear. All the best and thanks for sharing :-)!
Once again: excellent video, fun and informative. I really hope you will never run out of any instruments to cover. The recording sample in the end is also very nice. Keep up the nice work Mr. Vestini!
I really enjoy your videos and have subscribed to your channel. The keyboard players of my youth all used a Wurly set on top of a B3. Period. I probably would have mentioned Ray Charles' "What'd I Say". The Wurlitzer is killer on it. About the comment on a video suggestion of a Hohner Pianet N: Good luck finding one where the foam on the magnetic pads hasn't completely deteriorated. I had one decades ago and really liked the sound of it on the Beatles recording of "The Night Before." You can see John playing one in film. Keep up the good work!
Wonderful! Did this come from Whitstable around 12 to 15 years ago by any chance? Just wondering if it's my old one, and maybe we actually met briefly back then! 😁
Chester, Nice piano. I have one in Mahogany.I recapped the amp and it's quiet as far as power supply hum goes but that volume control still has a substantial ground/ 60 hz hum. I notice your piano does not seem to have it. any ideas?? The piano sounds great otherwise.
I have a 112, which has essentially or perhaps exactly the same amp. I replaced all the capacitors and tubes and it still has more hum than I'd like. I took it to a guitar amp shop, I took it to a vintage keyboard shop, and they both said the rebuild was done well and everything is to spec according to the schematic. Did you do any special mods to this amp to get it quieter? I'm stumped, and the repair shops apparently aren't the right resource for circuit tweaking or redesign. It must be possible to improve the noise floor, but it's a little above my pay grade...
All I did was ensure there was only one grounding point on the chassis and earthed it too. Maybe check that the output lead from the pickups isn’t perished inside - if it is, replaced with a new shielded cable
@@RocknJazzer What was the mod you did? I suspect the hum is coming from the preamp stage and the tubes would be less noisy if the heaters had center-tapped balanced power instead of one side hot and the other cold. I've been a little hesitant to attempt such a major redesign though, because it would basically mean ripping the whole amp apart again.
@@RocknJazzer I did mod my amp for a while with an additional capacitor that bled a lot of the hum to ground, but it also reduced the volume overall and the brightness of the sound, so ultimately I removed that modification. It did work, but ultimately I prefer to have full volume and brightness. The piano is working great, but there's a low-level hum that's only acceptable for live use. By modern recording standards, it's still too noisy. It makes no difference whether the reed bar is plugged in or not, so reed bar shielding isn't an issue. I removed the phono input because it's unnecessary. Grounding my chassis didn't make any difference. One of these days I'll open it up again and rebuild the preamp stage one more time, and perhaps change how the heaters are supplied power. Meanwhile, it's still a lot of fun to use and it's a low priority. Many thanks!
I wonder if your noise is due to the amplifier being closer to the tunes and pickups in the 112. This console Wurlitzer’s amp is practically on the floor, a couple feet from the action.
@@deanevangelista6359 My particular hum is something internal to the amp, because I get it when the reed bar is not plugged in also. It's just old tube amp hum, and it will never have the modern silent noise floor that I want.
Вы добрый человек. И чертовски талантливый. У Вас любой инструмент играет вкусно. Спасибо за просвещение и всегда свежую информацию😊
Thank you very much! :)
Magic cough and sausagy fingers. You are a rock star. Love the music.
eczema-llent video
Hahahahaha
As a guitar player, I wish all keys players were as mental as this chap… would make things so much more fun 😝 especially as it’s good to have someone in a band who understands electronics etc. I understand i need to give it to someone else to deal with. Enjoying your vids!
Sometimes i wish Wurlitzer re-releases musical instruments like (electric) Pianos,(theater) organs,(electric) guitars,(digital) keyboards & Drum Machines!
They are. Wurlitzer is re-releasing something very soon. No idea what, but its coming. Announced at NAMM.
Love my Wurlitzer 700. I wrote a whole album based on it called Edward Blankman's Cape Cod Cottage.
Brilliant title! :)
absolutely ace! best 700 video on the entire interweb. cheers
Love your work. Your clips are so educational and your such a fine musician. Keep uploading and educating the masses !!!
Thank you! Will do!
Excellent! How much fun it must be to tweak the sounds live while playing in front of the speaker, to feel the vibration and response of the keyboard ...? It's even a joy to only watch this video! As we could clearly see the digital technology can be truly a friend in order to achieve some great hybrid setups in combination with (modificated) vintage gear. All the best and thanks for sharing :-)!
Anther interesting video. Thanks for posting
I love that you put out fun, interesting videos without being contenty or clickbaity, this is a great channel
Once again: excellent video, fun and informative. I really hope you will never run out of any instruments to cover. The recording sample in the end is also very nice. Keep up the nice work Mr. Vestini!
Hello, in your collection of keyboards and electric pianos I imagine that there will be a Hohner pianet you can make a video of it.
Hi Gio. Sadly we don't own one... yet! If we can get hold of one then of course we will gladly make a video.
❤soooo daam cool!!!
Soon as I saw this,I thought of Dreamer by Supertramp.
Around 12.30ish I thought you were going to treat us to Roy Budd's theme from Get Carter !
LOL funny guy. Could be a skit in a Monty Python skit.
"The Ballet of the Hands" at begining is an hidden reference to Dr Mix? 😁
I really enjoy your videos and have subscribed to your channel. The keyboard players of my youth all used a Wurly set on top of a B3. Period. I probably would have mentioned Ray Charles' "What'd I Say". The Wurlitzer is killer on it. About the comment on a video suggestion of a Hohner Pianet N: Good luck finding one where the foam on the magnetic pads hasn't completely deteriorated. I had one decades ago and really liked the sound of it on the Beatles recording of "The Night Before." You can see John playing one in film. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I forgot ray Charles - this was (I think) the same model type that he played
Wonderful! Did this come from Whitstable around 12 to 15 years ago by any chance? Just wondering if it's my old one, and maybe we actually met briefly back then! 😁
I bought it from a Scotsman named Doug.
@@VintageKeysStudio "As you do" 🤣 Mine was pretty much identical but the action was tired so it needed a lot of work.
sweet mod - would that effects loop work with an electro harmonix b9 or c9 pedal? got a 120 here i may give that a go.
Yes it should work with any pedal
When unplugged does the wurlitzer produce an audible sound (tone) when you play it?
Very very quietly, yes
Chester, Nice piano. I have one in Mahogany.I recapped the amp and it's quiet as far as power supply hum goes but that volume control still has a substantial ground/ 60 hz hum. I notice your piano does not seem to have it. any ideas?? The piano sounds great otherwise.
I will have a look at mine this week and check how it is wired
What Bread song is that? It's very catchy
I can’t remember without watching the video again - I would guess it was the song ‘If’
Hey hey
Super sad news. One of these came up on marketplace. I figured it’d be sold for a fair price, learned the guy sold it for just $300.
:'(
I have a 112, which has essentially or perhaps exactly the same amp. I replaced all the capacitors and tubes and it still has more hum than I'd like. I took it to a guitar amp shop, I took it to a vintage keyboard shop, and they both said the rebuild was done well and everything is to spec according to the schematic. Did you do any special mods to this amp to get it quieter? I'm stumped, and the repair shops apparently aren't the right resource for circuit tweaking or redesign. It must be possible to improve the noise floor, but it's a little above my pay grade...
All I did was ensure there was only one grounding point on the chassis and earthed it too. Maybe check that the output lead from the pickups isn’t perished inside - if it is, replaced with a new shielded cable
@@RocknJazzer What was the mod you did? I suspect the hum is coming from the preamp stage and the tubes would be less noisy if the heaters had center-tapped balanced power instead of one side hot and the other cold. I've been a little hesitant to attempt such a major redesign though, because it would basically mean ripping the whole amp apart again.
@@RocknJazzer I did mod my amp for a while with an additional capacitor that bled a lot of the hum to ground, but it also reduced the volume overall and the brightness of the sound, so ultimately I removed that modification. It did work, but ultimately I prefer to have full volume and brightness.
The piano is working great, but there's a low-level hum that's only acceptable for live use. By modern recording standards, it's still too noisy. It makes no difference whether the reed bar is plugged in or not, so reed bar shielding isn't an issue.
I removed the phono input because it's unnecessary. Grounding my chassis didn't make any difference.
One of these days I'll open it up again and rebuild the preamp stage one more time, and perhaps change how the heaters are supplied power. Meanwhile, it's still a lot of fun to use and it's a low priority. Many thanks!
I wonder if your noise is due to the amplifier being closer to the tunes and pickups in the 112. This console Wurlitzer’s amp is practically on the floor, a couple feet from the action.
@@deanevangelista6359 My particular hum is something internal to the amp, because I get it when the reed bar is not plugged in also. It's just old tube amp hum, and it will never have the modern silent noise floor that I want.
This soft pedal implementation sounds like a joke
it is a joke
@@VintageKeysStudio no, it's not =)
I think this is the dirtiest sounding keyboard I’ve ever heard.