[sdiy] OT: Rhodes pickup rewinding

[Diogo Melo]

Hi!
I have a rhodes and i can confirm that it actually happens. Can't explain
why but it does


diogo

On 06/03/06, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday 06 March 2006 01:48 pm, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
> > On 3/6/06, rkmoore at memphis.edu <rkmoore at memphis.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I have a Rhodes piano that I love dearly, but over time the pickups
> > > slowly die.  I have purchased replacement coils out of cannibalized
> > > pianos, and this has worked, but I would rather learn to rewind the
> > > pickups (I want to keep this piano alive for decades to come).  Does
> > > anyone know the wire gauge or number of turns?  42 seems like a
> familiar
> > > number, but I haven't found it well documented.  I  know the impedance
> > > should be between 170 and 190 ohms.
> > >
> > > THANKS,
> > >
> > > Richard
> >
> > Sorry I can't offer any help, but I do have a question: the pickups
> > eventually die? I've seen 30 and 40 year old guitars with their
> > original pickups. Are the pickups in the Rhodes especially fragile?
> > Are they subject to a lot of mechanical stress? Or do they perhaps get
> > a whole lot of current run through them? Doesn't seem likely, but I
> > could easily be wrong on this one. Can anyone shed some light on this?
> >
> > Tim (in the dark again) Servo
> > --
> > "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
>
> I've never heard this before either,  and I've encountered some rather old
> units in my servicing days...
>
> I suppose that one way to do it would be to measure the size of the wire
> with
> a micrometer,  which should translate to what gauge it is with some handy
> chart,  and then count the turns on a "dead" coil that's being
> unwound.  Very
> tedious stuff,  to say the least.
>
> --
> Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
> ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
> be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
> -
> Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies.
> --James
> M Dakin
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/attachments/20060306/b2bd3af2/attachment.htm>