RHODES EK-10 (1 Pc)

Description

The Rhodes Mark III EK-10 was released in 1980. This was a Stage 73 with an integrated synthesizer component, designed to create “futuristic” sounds by modulating, mutating and mutilating the Rhodes tone.The EK-10’s front panel included the volume and EQ controls you would expect to find on a Stage 73, jumbled together with volume, filter and tuning controls for the synthesizer voices. Theoretically you could turn down the volume for the synthesizer, leaving only the pure Rhodes sound. Whether this worked in reality is unknown (and unlikely). Inside the piano, the pickup rail was wired to several circuit boards, which were configured as two separate keyboard zones (controlled by a switch on the namerail). This allowed the treble and bass ranges of the piano to be affected differently when fed to the synthesizer.