The Storytone Electric Piano
The Story & Clark Storytone was, arguably, the first commercially available electric piano. Its development was a joint venture between the Story & Clark Piano Company (U.S.) and the Radio… Read more »
Tag: electric piano
Introducing the Rhodes V8 and V8 Pro
There are countless digital keyboard instruments and plugins striving to emulate the legendary (Fender) Rhodes sound. You will be hard-pressed to find a digital piano that doesn’t feature at least… Read more »
The Rhodes Piano is Back!
The legendary Rhodes electric piano, often referred to as the Fender Rhodes, is now reincarnated in the form of the Rhodes MK8. This is an electric piano – not a… Read more »
Sampleson Launches Reed106 Virtual Piano
Software house Sampleson has just released Reed106, with the strapline “The first ever-changing modelled electric piano”. This is a virtual instrument. It comes as either a VST or AU plugin… Read more »
New Product: Valente Electric Piano
The Valente Electric Piano is a new electro-mechanical instrument designed by Brazilian inventor Tiago Valente. Valente had been making electronic musical devices since he was a kid. In his teens… Read more »
Sampleson Releases Klavee — a Virtual Klaviphon
The Klaviphon is a small, budget electric piano. It was manufactured in Czechoslovakia between 1958 and 1966 by the state run National Company Harmonika Hořovice and by the Rieger Kloss… Read more »
The Piano Leo Fender Never Made
In 1942 piano teacher Harold Rhodes, then in the US Army Air Corps, developed a miniature piano for hospitalised soldiers to play. It was made from bits of old planes… Read more »
The Legendary Hohner Electra Piano
Software house Sampleson have just released a free (donations welcome) virtual recreation of the Hohner Electra Piano T. Entitled “Electrix”, it comes as both a VST and AU plugin—a standalone… Read more »