Wurly Or Rhodes?

[Polkahero]

My bandleader thinks the intro to this Ronnie Milsap song he wants to cover is a Rhodes.  I think it's a Wurlitizer with some phase shifter or chorus effect.  Maybe it's something else.  What do you guys think or use if you cover this song?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYrXp8aQHsE

 

 

[Dave Number Four]

I would have guessed a cp70/80 with tremolo and chorus?

[Shamanzarek]

1979 ad.

[MathOfInsects]

Wurly all day. 

[RedKey]

Wurly for sure

 

[rickzjamm]

WURLY.

[Doerfler]

1 hour ago, Polkahero said:

  I think it's a Wurlitizer with some phase shifter or chorus effect. 

 

 

Agreed. 

[apple]

Wurlitzer. That was easy.

[niacin]

regardless of what they used for the recording I’d go with a Wurly

[MartinLeo]

Wurlitzer +1

[Baldwin Funster]

Little hurly burly in his curly wurly.

[Jim Alfredson]

Definitely a Wurlitzer.

[J.F.N.]

8 hours ago, Polkahero said:

My bandleader thinks the intro to this Ronnie Milsap song he wants to cover is a Rhodes.  I think it's a Wurlitizer with some phase shifter or chorus effect.  Maybe it's something else.  What do you guys think or use if you cover this song?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYrXp8aQHsE

 

 

 

Quite often non keys players reference for electric piano is Rhodes. We all know this is a Wurly, fairly processed.

[Adan]

Too easy. Ask your band leader to give us a harder one.

 

Not a fan of that excessively pingy wurly sound. Would rather hear the edges rounded off a bit.

 

I've often reflected on how the wurly has arguably aged better than the Rhodes. Some people might debate that fiercely. I own a Vintage Vibe, so I'm obviously no Rhodes hater. But if I could trade the VV for a reliable mechanical reproduction of a Wurly, I'd do it. Some people have time and patience to deal with a real vintage one, sadly I do not.

[Delaware Dave]

Ask him to listen to supertramps goodbye stranger or logical song.

[Moonglow]

I’ll join the chorus for a chorused Wurli. 

 

I usually don’t have much difficulty distinguishing between a Wurli and Rhodes. I sometimes have problems identifying the Yamaha CP-30, especially when effects are applied.

[vonnor]

Being as it was the very first pro keyboard I ever owned, I gotta say Wurlitzer 200a.

 

~ vonnor

[allan_evett]

Yep, chorused Wurli. I pick up a strong, 'Supertramp' vibe from that intro.

[El Lobo]

Yeah, wurly. Wurly wurly wurly. 

[stoken6]

Wonderful quality to Ronnie's voice. 

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Ed A.]

Definitely Wurly.

[miden]

nah...it's a rhodes

 

[KeyMoe]

We have been covering it for years and I always use a wurly with chorus. Works! 

[1203]

Studio version definitely a Wurlitzer with eq and chorus effect. Live version obviously a Rhodes. 😉

[Iconoclast]

Supertrampy all day long. I'd definitely start with a Wurli.

That being said, sometimes there are some EP's that are kind of tweeners that can work either way.  Get the right amount of bark on the attack and put some chorus on it, you might be in the same territory. But for this one I'd bet real 

American money it's a wurli in the studio recording.

[DroptopBroham]

In my band we are still debating what the keys are on this track. Guitarist is convinced it is a Pianet through a fuzz box, bassist thinks it's a low passed Rhodes. I'm leaning to Wurlitzer, that's what I'm playing on it with the band.

 

 

[MathOfInsects]

That's Zawinul, right? It's almost certainly a Rhodes, which is what it sounds like to me anyway. Pianet is chimier. Not a Wurly. 

[DroptopBroham]

"I worked with Dinah Washington for two years, and we once went on a tour with Ray Charles. He carried a sixty-six key Wurlitzer around, and he was really the first person I'd ever heard on electric piano. On a gig down South, we came across a really dead piano, so Dinah asked if we could use the Wurlitzer. It was beautiful. They had the same kind of Wurlitzer in the Capitol studio when I was recording there with Cannonball Adderley in the mid-sixties, so I recorded "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" on it. I carried the Wurlitzer on the road for a while, until Victor Feldman told me that Rhodes made a piano that was really smokin'. I got one. Miles Davis heard me play on it and liked it, and then Herbie got one, and later we recorded In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew using it."

[MathOfInsects]

Regardless of what he played on earlier in the decade, this recording is a Rhodes.

[El Lobo]

I pumped up the volume and played the intro a few times. That's no Wurly, it sounds like a Rhodes-y