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Looking for a Rheem Keyboard, the ones made by the air conditioning company.

I've got a Rheem bass keyboard I'd part with...

Is that the puppy?

I have one. I believe the e flat doesn't make a sound, I have a dream of one day repairig it, but maybe my smartest move is to get it to someone who wants it...

email me for photos.

Curt.

Off topic but does anyone know how to fix these things? I've got the Keybass and I just can't get it to stay on tune. I'll get 4 or 5 notes tuned and when I tune the 6th it knocks the others out.

Not to jump on your topic jckinnick, but which one are you looking for, the Kee Bass, or the Mark VII? My girlfriend has been looking for a Mark VII specifically, for years, but can never find one without either a number of problems, missing parts, or big hunks of plastic missing.

Have you seen the virtual Kee Bass over at : http://www.keyboardmuseum.org/d_machines/keebass.html
?

Tons of fun!

-Darrill

I was fortunate enough to sample a Rheem Kee Bass last year. It was just serviced and tuned, and I sampled every single note in every single mode. Unfortuntely, I've still to tweek/loop all of the samples and actually use it.

One could use a program like Audio Hijack Pro and sample the Kee Bass sounds from the Virtual Kee Bass site, then import them into a sampler.

Jeff

I finally found my Rheem for those of you who were interested in it...

It probably needs a good cleaning...

Trade for a rackmount spring reverb or what-have-you...

wow, that thing looks dope - who woulda thought Rheem would make a keyboard! Oh Well, Norelco made the akg c12a and it's the most incredible mic

yeah, who tunes these things up? i've got one that's mostly there, but would fully dig it if it were 100%...

dwelle wrote:yeah, who tunes these things up? i've got one that's mostly there, but would fully dig it if it were 100%...

From my understanding you can just hook it up to a tuner and tune by adjusting the pots under the hood. This is from: http://www.combo-organ.com/Rheem/index.htm

"Tuning is accomplished via trim pots, one per key, located inside the case."

There was a website with a picture of someone tuning one up but I can't find it now. I can't imagine it would be too difficult.

Hope that helps

-Darrill

I just saw one of the Rhodes-type Rheems in a guitar shop on Hollywood Blvd. It was right down the street from Guitar Center and across form the Mesa Boogie shop. Not the one on the corner (is that Future Music?) but down a couple of stores form there. I have no idea of the model number or how much they wanted for it, but it was the electric piano/harpsichord thing.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

I picked up a Raven Piano bass this weekend for less than $150!

a few keys were obviously out of tune, but I figured out how to tune each key properly today!

As i understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, the raven piano bass is basically the same as the Rheem Kee Bass.. as far as the guts go

here's how to calibrate each key without everything going way out of wack!

after much trial and error, i realized that in each octave, each key's trim pot effects its corresponding key and every note lower than itself. therefore you have to tune the high note of each octave first.. then go down tuning each one lower, one after the other.
Make sure you keep retesting the keys above the one you are working on to make sure they are still in tune and haven't been bumped!

Each octave is independent of each other and has it's own set of trim pots.

you can find the trim pots behind the front panel, there should be four screws, 2 on either side of the unit, just unscrew them, and carefully pop off the panel. the pots are easy to find and are labeled with each key.


here's some pics of mine!

Those Rheem keyboards are dead sexy... a few years ago I worked on one of the combo organs, and it looked even better inside. Amazing attention to detail in manufacturing.

My grandmother worked for Rheem YEARS ago.....

Hrm my client/friend had one in his garage last weekend. I was planning pn pulling it out for a jam but it escaped me...supposedly in great shape, probably not selling though..gonna play it this weekend for sure.