Locating Bad Fender Rhodes Piano Pickups Quickly

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Locating Bad Fender Rhodes Piano Pickups Quickly

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Customers often ask how do I figure out which pickups are bad in my piano. Well our head tech James thought he would answer that question in the most logical and basic way possible. The series parallel wiring on Rhodes Pianos can be confusing to most people, hopefully once you understand the theory behind this system you will be able to quickly locate and replace bad pickups. You will need a multimeter and a pair of clippers to exercise this method. You will also need pickups to replace your bad ones. Vintage Vibe sells replacement pickups and pickup wire as well as all other piano parts. www.vintagevibe.com

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@JonathanLewis-uw7ow 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic- this will help me fix my 73 stage. Appreciated

@DavidThackerMusic Жыл бұрын

these videos are so insanely helpful. thank you

@cx7at 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent the video. Well explained !!!

@lukewarm5356 4 жыл бұрын

Really useful, thanks for this

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, great instructional video! Do you know the pickup wiring for the 54 model?? Thx

@replayloud7045 Жыл бұрын

Can we use the tap test (ie tapping a screw driver) to also identify dead pickups? Is the advantage here that we can tell if there's a series wire issue too?

@TESLAB-ie2mn 4 ай бұрын

Why are the coils damaged? I can't figure out why, since there is no current flowing through it (no more than mV) so that it could burn or something like that... I am a guitar tech and I know that the working principle of the electric guitar pickup and the Fender Rhodes is the same but I have NEVER seen a guitar pickup break! Could someone explain it to me?

@STP_Fantasma 3 жыл бұрын

I was told that using a low heat soldering iron, like a 30w is ideal for this type of work. Is this true?

@Superphilipp 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely. You want to be careful not to melt the plastic

@erwe1054 2 жыл бұрын

fastest method - touching pickups cores with screwdriver, and listen.

@silicon212 4 жыл бұрын

38 bad pickups? No wonder the poor thing had no output. Assuming that's a 73, that's over half bad. If I get a MkII with white pickups, they're all getting replaced.

@tom_k_d 4 жыл бұрын

From my experince the ones with the white cover tape (late late 70ies and early 80ies) are a lot less reliable than the older ones with transparent tape - their wire tends to corrode at the solder joints, especially when the Rhodes was stored in humid environment. Given the cost of 73x new PUs, it's best to avoid instruments equipped with the white ones, especially if the metal parts of this specific instrument show signs of corrosion, too.