One of the earliest jazz uses of the Fender Rhodes electric piano was in 1968, when Herbie Hancock played it on Miles Davis's Miles in the Sky. He may have come to the instrument through the Columbia record label. CBS bought the Fender Rhodes company in 1965 and began manufacturing a full-size keyboard. By the early 1970s, the Rhodes was ubiquitous, esp…
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