There are people who always loved the old gear and never stopped loving it. You could get these things for next to nothing. I remember, in the early ‘90s, hearing gear that today we’d call vintage being referred to as archaic. There was a period where vintage didn’t seem all that desirable. That’s really how it started, I was just focusing on the parts. People from all over the world needed these parts for instruments that were starting to become hip again. I started to see that there was a real need for aftermarket parts. I put up a really crude website and started manufacturing aftermarket parts for old keyboards. One day I was on 14th Street, probably around 2002, and, after not finding parking, then finding parking and getting a ticket and having a hell of a time with an organ, I said, “I can’t be doing this when I’m 60 years old.” The internet had just really started to take off. I was going all around New York City, repairing Hammond organs, Wurlitzers, Rhodes. Your back is against the wall and you have to do something. I had just had a son and, at that point, decided to continue with my own business, fulltime. Then 9/11 came and it drove a lot of people out of the city. I was basically being left in the trenches to figure it all out, all while moonlighting with Vintage Vibe.
I trained with them on fixing old Wurlitzers and Rhodes and other keyboards. They were looking for someone to run their keyboard department. At some point, around the mid-to-late ‘90s, I got an offer to work with Jeff Blenkinsopp, who was owner of EARS, Expert Audio Repairs and Services. This was before the vintage curve really took hold. After a while, I was spending more money repairing old vintage keyboards than I was actually renting them out. I started buying them, fixing them, and then selling them to clients that would come through the Magic Shop.Įventually, I started collecting gear to rent to recording studios. Back in the day you could find them for $10-15 dollars. Toward the end of my musical career, as far as playing live and so forth, I started finding Wurlitzers and Rhodes at garage sales out in New Jersey. I met a girl, who I ended up marrying, and she was the manager of the Magic Shop in New York City, a pretty famous recording studio. I was playing in bands in New York City, in the ‘80s, and ‘90s. How did this business start for you? You’re a musician and I’m guessing that that played some role in this. The Vintage Vibe team also includes Carroll’s partner, Fred DiLeone, head fabricator Adam Kaniper, head electronic technician James Theesfeld and Alberto Hernandez, lead technician, as well as Tom DiCianni, Chris Flynn, Steve Capecci, and Janet Carroll.Ĭarroll recently spoke with KMUW about the company’s origins and its future.įind out more about the company at. Among those who use or have used Vintage Vibe pianos are Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, Jamiroquai’s Matt Johnson, Greg Phillinganes, Robert Glasper, Anderson.Paak, Grammy nominee Rachel Eckroth, Richie Kotzen, Gregg Allman, The National, and Peter Levin. The company’s roster of artists continues to grow a decade after it began building its own electric pianos. Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.Chris Carroll is owner and founder of Vintage Vibe, a company that manufactures electric pianos as well as offering instrument repairs and restoration.Bridge: 6-Saddle Vintage-Style with Non-Locking Floating Vibrato.Product Name: Squier FSR Classic Vibe 60s Jaguar LRL, Charcoal Frost Metallic.This throwback Squier electric guitar model also features 1960s-inspired headstock markings, rich-looking nickel-plated hardware and a slick vintage-tint gloss neck finish for an old-school vibe. This Squier Classic Vibe ‘60s Jaguar electric guitar is faithful to the original with a vintage-style tremolo system for expressive string bending effects and floating bridge with barrel saddles for solid string stability. Small hands will appreciate the short 24” scale length and slim, comfortable “C”-shaped neck profile with an easy-playing 9.5”-radius fingerboard and narrow-tall frets. The Squier Classic Vibe ‘60s Jaguar turns up the volume on retro style and produces incredible tone courtesy of its dual Fender-Designed alnico single coil pickups.
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