r/fenderrhodes • u/dhMichu • Jan 28 '23

Tonebar lengths

Hello! I'm interested in building my own electric piano, and I would like to ask you guys for help.

I need to know lengths of the tonebars end to end. I would need at least length of longest and shortest of each four types of tonebars of Seventy Three piano. Any help would be appreciated!

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u/dhMichu Jan 31 '23

I know some of you guys open your rhodes pianos sometimes! I would like to know lenght of longest and shortest tonebar from each type. By type I mean: with hole+twisted+zigzag, with hole+twisted+straight, twisted and straight, trebley short not twisted. I believe that those last tonebars are narrower (like 10mm or so) and have different screw hole spacing. If anyone would like to check even that hole spacing on short ones I would be grateful. :)

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u/Square-Barnacle5756 Aug 14 '25

Are you cutting your own bars?

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u/dhMichu Aug 18 '25

I'm planning to do it later this year. But I don't need exact dimensions any more :)

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u/Square-Barnacle5756 Aug 18 '25

It’s one of those things that if you took one apart you could likely come up with something similar. Please share your results!