Intheether Posted September 25, 2001 Share Posted September 25, 2001 Okay.... I am completely obsessed with the sound of this electric piano. Every website I try to access is either "404 error" or a "Wurlitzer jukebox" site. What do one of these pianos go for now and are they easy to find? Does anyone have an active link? ~nel * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted September 25, 2001 Share Posted September 25, 2001 I'm not sure what you're looking for... if it's just info about it, it seems there are some sites, for instance http://www.melmusic.com.au/articles/wurly.html I know how it feels like when you finally find your "golden" link, you clic on it and .... 404 not found etc. But if you use google, it also keeps cached versions of the indexed pages. Give it a try, you might find it this way (although sometimes the cached versiones are buggy or empty). = blue = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intheether Posted September 25, 2001 Author Share Posted September 25, 2001 Blue...It's google i'm having crappy luck with. That's always my search engine of choice. I'm really just researching it at this point...don't know how much it costs, where to find them etc...I'll check out your link. Thanks! ~nel * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobro Posted September 25, 2001 Share Posted September 25, 2001 I don't know about Wurlitzer electric pianos, which are the hip thing, though I did have a Wurlitzer acoustic upright, it was cool but not exactly a hot vintage item. Anyway, check this out: http://members.tripod.co.uk/karenlbeck/epianos.html a fun site. -CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Blab Blab Bla Posted September 25, 2001 Share Posted September 25, 2001 Also this.. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wurlitzer_Elec_Piano The wurly is a great keyboard but I'd take a rhodes any day over it..;-) Peace neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgroup Posted September 25, 2001 Share Posted September 25, 2001 I'm fortunate enough to own both a Wurlitzer and a Rhodes!! In any case, as far as I know, the hip Wurly to own is Model #200A. This is the one I have and it's fantastic. I picked mine up for about $130 USD about 8 or 9 years ago. I've since seen a couple here in Toronto for about $200 - $250 USD. They don't come up that often though, so if you find one, grab it! Last time I checked, parts (for all old Wurly instruments) were available from a place in Mississippi called Morelock Organ. Not sure if they're still around, but a couple of years ago I bought some replacement keys and a new sustain pedal assembly through them. Hope this helps and good luck finding one!! Brent Brent Bodrug www.bgroupmusic.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Frankensteinway Posted September 26, 2001 Share Posted September 26, 2001 Over the years I was lucky enough to have had one of everything. Pianet, Wurly and Rhodes. I think in the end I preferred the sound and feel of the Pianets. The Hohner Pianets were among the very first of the 'tine' type electric pianos and came out in 1958 or 1960 or so? Fender Rhodes did have some instruments out, but they did not come into full force until about 1964 or so. Once Fender got involved. I always felt the Pianet (either the N or the T) had a bit more "bite" to the sound and recorded better in all kinds of band tracks. The Wurly was always more work to get to sound proper, but sounded so amazing in the end if you stuck with it. The Wurly was nice and light and less expensive compared to the Rhodes. Rhodes were a bear to work with live. Heavy. Big. Lots of hum and pops to watch out for. The Suitcase was nice in the studio, but the Stage Piano was the only Rhodes to use live. I found the Rhodes "sound-through-full-keyboard-range" to be a little inconsistent. Bass notes were good, middle a little mushy and the top end always to bright and choppy. Every Rhodes is so different. I owned one that was a dog, and one that was an angel. The funny thing was that the bad one had the sought-after wooden action and the sweet one had the plastic hammers. Go figure. My favorite Wurlys are the old, wooden cabinet types. I forget the model number. Wasn't there a Baldwin connection at some point? What am I thinking of? Igor refuses to tell me where I was during the 'Seventies' . . so I have to depend on written accounts. Currently I am down to my last Electric Piano ~ an ElectroPro. Sort of a cross between the Wurly and the CP-70 sound wise. Ah . . those were the days . . . . of broken tines, out of tune pianos, hums and pops . . . but those were the days . . . Oh yeah, a must for recording any electric piano is a good compressor of some kind. That makes all the difference. Oh yeah? That's fine for you, you're an accepted member of the entertainment community. What about me? What about Igor? Marginalized by Hollywood yet again. I want my Mummy . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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