Dulcitone Vintage Tuning Fork Piano Demonstration and A Look Inside 

With those glasses, I thought you were going to teach the virtues of the New Standard Tuning and Ovation guitars.

Can (also) imagine some fairytale Christmas tunes played on this neat piano. Never seen such acoustic tuning fork instruments before, thank you for this presentation including the live play! All the best :-)!

The sound of ghosts: such a beautiful, yet melancholic device

The best Dulcitone playing I've ever heard.

Every day that you post a video is a red-letter day. ❤

It's gonna look and sound great when it's restored.

Hi Steve, Very nice sounding "dogs coffin" you've got there, luckily it still got it's four legs to stand upon ! ! ! 🐶

Yet another great video. As an occasional collector of old things, I wonder if vintage keys studio has a distinctive smell. Dust toasting on hot valves .... no 'odour de plastic'

I have one of these too. Picked it up for £50!

Wow ! Amazing and beautiful!

Hello Steve, that Dulcitone keyboard has such a beautiful sound and also represents musical history !!

“Sweet child of mine” never sounded better 😊

I'm not sure how interested I really am in vintage keyboards, but I feel like I have just met a new friend, so I have subscribed!

The original Norman Petty studio (Nor-Va-Jak Music Inc.) in Clovis New Mexico is a marvelous treat to visit! A true time machine. It would be very peculiar If anyone found themselves in Clovis, but if one were to pass that way be sure to make an appointment and visit the studio! By the way Clovis is also known as the “only hole above ground”… So one shouldn’t miss that! 😂 (Just kidding Clovis 😉)

Love that sound Steve.. As a 62 yr old Git. i definateley remember hearing those tones from The Flowerpot men and Andy Pandy great stuff as usuall.

Marvellous instrument. I'm quite envious! I wonder if any of these ever made it to North America or continental Europe in their heyday. I've heard that they were popular with missionaries, so probably a lot instruments have been lost due to harsh climate conditions or the falling apart of the empire ;)

I would just like to state that I am far too young to recognise the Camberwick Green intro' you played at the beginning .

this is magical

Cheers Margary Galeforce, its always nice to hear of where these lovely instruments have been used in popular music and by whom too! Incidentally, wots that sitting on top of the Yamaha behind you, (Oh no it isn't) ? Did wonder if you might venture into vintage synths?

Glad you got one, what a story. did the store owner not know of this instrument? It like an acoutic rhodes, but ofcourse not an rhodes sound :P However please run in through an amp with some tremelo just for the sake of it. im so curious :D Hope you can do some nice restoration of it. Its so unique

Incredible! I have been wondering for the longest time if this type of instrument existed.

It's surprisingly open, a lot of space above the tines, behind the keyboard. Just a thought, but that space really lends itself to experimenting with pickups, without changing the original. Roll your own, but you can buy Chinese guitar /Bass pickups for silly money, esp. in bulk - build an array on something you can easily remove. A plethora of routing and phase options, before you even get to an amp. One off, unique electric piano, without (significantly) effecting the sound of the acoustic instrument.

This is beautiful! I don't even know where I would start looking for something like this, or even a Celesta.

Super! I wonder if anyone's fitted pickups to one of these?

Thanks again for doing these videos! What a great archive. Do you ever record sample packs of these interesting instruments?

I would love one of these, it sounds divine!

A delightful sound. BTW permanent marker can be easily removed by - of all things ! - suntan lotion. I have no idea how I know this but it worked perfectly for me. I guess caution should be used when using it on ivory rather than plastic...

Sweet was the song by Christopher Brown (Celesta/Piano Part) would sound great on this

omg it's a baby rhodes i love it *squee*

Great intro 😄

Great video, thanks... Still bothers me that I saw a Dulcitone in a charity shop priced at £40... but I didn't have that much money at the time 😢 I'll just have to make do with my old PPG to make tinkling bell sounds 😆

Basically an acoustic Fender Rhodes!

Jesus! "Sweet Child O' Mine" (stupid "O'"!) sounded fucking great.

Random unrelated question: Are you using those LEAK amp's as pre-amps? I got one of those! Early germanium transistor hi-fi stuff am i right? Always wondered how it would sound as mic pre. Thanks man awesome vid's! Cheers

I like your hairstyle and eyeglasses.

Was that the theme from camberwick green you played at the beginning.

I hope you picked up that little bit of ivory that flew off when you removed the keybed!😂

Is the missing key replaceable? I know old ivory keys are out there in the wild but would they fit?

Is this tuned to A440? or something different? Sounds lovely.

What are the two Leak units sitting next to the mixer? They look like Stereo 30 amps, but without the little knob and the headphone socket.. Funnily enough, I listened to this video's audio through a Leak Stereo 30 Plus. I did watch the visual portion of it too. I also have two Delta 70 amps in here. I love a good Leak!

The Rhodes Electric Piano is really an Electrified Version of the Dulcitone.

How difficult would it be to get production plans for a dulcitone and begin manufacturing them?

Were the microfones you used Oktava's?

Mr. Roger's Neighborhood

go on then, give us a glissando then

Yummy

Cif will get rid of the pen-marks.

A pretty sweet instrument, very musical. Your recording is clipping. Thanks though!

aka a musical dog coffin lol

If I were schizophrenic I'd like to be either Buddy Rose or Axel Holly