On Tuesday 19 November 2024 09:49:05 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:
In 1974 I built a plate reverb, 1/8 thick 48" wide by 60" long in a oak 4"X4" frame. It takes 4 strong people to move it (which I'm not these days). Sure beats a spring reverb (have one of them too).? Until digital effects matured, the plate reverb was it unless you had a large spare room to use as an echo chamber.
I've only ever heard of those being used in recording studios.
I never cared for the Leslie Speaker
They sound good on electronic organs but not so good on electric guitars.
I like 'em, but then I like organs, too. Almost ended up with one a while back, but my car died around that time and I took the money the guy offered me instead. Last time I talked to him he was still looking for a Leslie cabinet. I did a mod on one of those once, the speed switching relay had some pretty burned contacts, so after getting a replacement I had the relay switching gate drive to a couple of triacs, and told the guy that he'd never have that problem again.
I also have a Fender Rhodes electric piano but reeds have become almost impossible and insanely expensive to buy, It needs a lot of reeds/tines so it is destined for the recycler.
Bummer. I like those, but didn't know that about them. Tines. Reeds are what you find in Worlitzer electric pianos. They break occasionally. Tuning those is done with a file on the little blob of solder on the end of the reed. You go too far, and you can always add some back. Lining those things up was a bit of a PITA. And then of course there's the voltage across that stuff, in the earlier ones it could give you quite a tingle...
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