Gear · keyboard
Rhodes Electric piano
Records it appears on · 1
- 52nd Street
Billy Joel · Album, 1978
- Piano and keyboards · InstrumentReportedBoyer thinks the main keyboard sound on this track was a Rhodes, processed with tape phasing, and that there were probably only two keyboards.
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Arturia Stage-73 V
instrument
A physical model of the Rhodes Stage and Suitcase electric pianos.
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Yamaha reface CP
A small keyboard with modelled Rhodes-type electric pianos and the effects usually played through them; it imitates the sound and has none of the real piano's tines or weighted keys.
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