![]() ![]() By the next day, they were visiting the burned-out rubble of Wray's Hume House, looking for any remaining pieces of Wray's Rhodes. They introduced themselves and heard Wray's tale of loss. ![]() That couple turned out to be the namesake creator of Rhodes pianos-Harold Rhodes-and his wife, Margit. An older couple looked on, amused, as he played some lines. Soon after, Wray was testing new pianos at a West Los Angeles music store. Pianist Jim Wray had lost his Malibu mansion-and his 88-key Rhodes Suitcase-in the large and disastrous 1993 wildfire. There's a great story about the so-called "Last Rhodes" in Gerald McCauley and Benjamin Bove's 2013 history of the electric piano, Down the Rhodes. ![]()
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