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Description

Our full refurb kits contain the absolute essentials for professional restoration of your Fender Rhodes piano. Kits come with you choice of hammer tips, damper felts, tone bar screws and grommets and our legendary "miracle mod" action mod.

First off, if the damper felts on your piano have never been changed, now is the time to do so! Replacing damper felts is one of the "must-do" jobs when restoring a Fender Rhodes piano. Vintage Vibe has carefully thought out the need for damper felts on the Fender Rhodes with a four part damper felt system - Bass, Pre-Mids, Mids, and Treble. These felts are custom-made and engineered to last decades. Our attention to detail has resulted in the best felts money can buy!

Next is the 'Miracle Mod' is a critical action mod for all Fender Rhodes and Rhodes pianos with soggy and sluggish action. The principle behind the Miracle Mod is that the hammer utilizes the rounded bump which acts as a leverage point as well as a stop lock for the hammer. These are two critical elements are key in a correctly functioning action. The Miracle Mod will work on any year piano from 1972 to 1977. Typically, pianos after 1978 had a bump built into the pedestal

The secret to tone lies within hammer tips. We've designed all of our tips for real durability, great sound quality and maximum playability. Vintage Vibe carries a full line of hammer tips that include square angled, graduated and felt tips. The tonal opportunities are endless. More information on our line of hammer tips can be found in our Guide to Hammer Tips.

Lastly, the need for new tone bar screws, grommets and washers is paramount to achieving correct voicing, sustain and tone of your piano. Grommets are at the heart of the sustain and vibration of your tine and tone bar. When a grommet becomes old, shrunken and hard it loses it's natural ability to increase vibration of the tine. In actuality, it starts to choke out the free vibrations causing a short ring time and dull tone. Tone bar screws are also an absolute for voicing articulately. Slightly bent screws cause voicing issues. For proper voicing you need to be positive all screws are perfectly straight. We have manufactured the most accurate and correctly coupled nickel plated screws washers and original style tone bar grommets available anywhere.

All parts of these kit are custom manufactured by Vintage Vibe. These are not bought at any supply parts store nor will you find them anywhere but Vintage Vibe and official Parts Distributors around the world.

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What's Included

Damper Felt Kit

Choice of kit: Pre 1975 or Post 1975 kit.

You'll want a Pre 1975 kit if your Fender Rhodes piano action has single dampers, half wood half plastic hammers and wood action. You will want a Post 1975 kit if your Rhodes piano action has damper combs, plastic hammers and aluminum frame action.

Miracle Mod Action Kit

Choice of kit: Pre 1978 or Post 1978 kit.

Pre 1978 kits come with felt, bumps, super glue and applicator bottle (for acetone.)

Post 1978 kits come with felt and applicator bottle (for acetone.)

**Pianos after 1978 had a bump built into the pedal. Therefore you do not need bumps**

Hammer Tip Kit

Choice of kit: graduated tips, angled tips, square tips or felt tip kits.

Tone Bar Screw & Grommet Kit

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Installation Video

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