Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hohner "Super Chromonica"; case marked "No.260 1/2" (model); images top-to-bottom show the case top, harmonica top, case bottom, and harmonica bottom/obverse. The Chromonica, no longer in production, contained forty reeds and played 2½ full chromatic octaves. This was the original Hohner chromatic model, available until recently in C or G. [18]
The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982.The instrument produces sounds with rubber pads, each matching one of the keys and responding to a keystroke by striking a given point on a tensioned string, and was designed to resemble the Renaissance-era clavichord.
The instrument was produced for a few months in the late 1990s before being discontinued. [ 1 ] Similar to a melodica (which is still in production), but worn like an accordion and played like a bagpipe , the claviola has a set of piano keys on the right side that range 2½ octaves.
The later Harmonettas (1960s and newer) featured white rings around the "E" keys, in the center of the instrument and had black internal Bakelite parts. There was a 2 row prototype Harmonetta, with built in synthesizer, called the CharlieMonica, built in the early 1970s. It is thought that Bernie Bray owned this instrument for a short time.
The Guitaret is an electric lamellophone made by Hohner and invented by Ernst Zacharias, in 1963. [1] Zacharias also invented similar instruments like the Pianet, Cembalet and the Clavinet. [2] [3] The instrument itself was not popular, and was dropped from the product line in 1965, presumably because it failed to excite the market.
The Hohner Multimonica (introduced in 1940 [1]) featured a combination of a fan-blown reed organ and a monophonic sawtooth wave analog synthesizer. Produced by the German Hohner GmbH in the 1940s and 1950s, it preceded even the more famous Selmer Clavioline. Its circuitry was designed by the German engineer Harald Bode.
Ernst Zacharias (21 June 1924 – 6 July 2020) [1] was a German musician and engineer. In the 1950s and 1960s, he invented various electro-mechanical musical instruments for the German musical instrument manufacturer Hohner, including the Cembalet, the Clavinet, the Guitaret, and the Pianet.
Instrument Tradition Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description banjo (with resonator) [1] [2] African American: 321.312-5 Four or five stringed instrument, plucked with a bare thumb and a forefinger covered by a metal thimble, traditionally with four or five strings, gimbri guinbri, guimbri, gimbri, ginibri Gnawa music: 321.312