From hammond321@yahoo.com Sat Jan 19 18:00:24 2013
Subject:Re: StoryTone Piano

Nice to hear from someone else who had one :) I do remember mine just smoked on "Sister Christian" and  "Roll With the Changes"... among others.

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From: Jake Hansen
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] StoryTone Piano


 
I had a Helpenstill Roadmaster in the early 1980s. It replaced my Melodigrand after I beat that poor thing nearly to death. Both had the same harp and soundboard. Only two strings per note so it was easy to tune it myself. I paid $900. and sold it a year later for $1000. The Helpenstill was SO cool. Always attracted a lot of attention. Had a very nice spinet tone and the built-in bar pickup provided even tone and volume across the full range of the 64 note keyboard, as opposed to just sticking a mic in the open top of the Melodigrand. After the Helpenstill I went to a Wurlitzer 200A. Its 56 pounds beat the heck out of the 200+ pounds of the Roadmaster. I'd love to have it back just for the "cool" factor.

Jake

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, j a wrote:
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> Those ads have been on there for awhile now. The Storytones are interesting and unique, but to me anyway, don't sound that much different than an ordinary spinet. Back in the 80's I had a Helpinstill Roadmaster that sounded very close to a grand, or at least a CP 70.