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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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
) reached number one in Germany in February 2007. [1] They performed it during the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship finals, held in Cologne. Their album Da Simmer Dabei! Die Grössten Partyhits was on the German top 50 albums chart for 8 weeks in 2007, peaking at number 9. [2] The title is a reference to the chorus of the song "Viva Colonia".
321.1: Instruments in which each string has its own flexible carrier 321.2: Instruments in which the string is attached to a yoke that consists of a cross-bar and two arms, with the yoke lying in the same plane as the sound-table (lyres or yoke lutes) 321.21: Instruments in which the resonator is bowl-shaped, either carved or natural