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The clavinet is essentially an electric version of the clavichord. Designed in the 1960s by Ernst Zacharias of the German company, Hohner, the clavinet evolved from the Cembalet, an instrument Zacharias had developed some years earlier as an electronic counterpart to the harpsichord. Construction Hohner produced several models of clavinet over the years, including the legendary D6. ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

A number of electric organs, electronic pianos and electric violins were marketed from the 1960s onwards by manufacturers such as Fender and Yamaha while specialist instruments such as the clavinet and keyboard bass also had periods of popularity. The synthesizer grew dominant in pop music in the 1980s as it became commercially available on a large scale. Programmable drum machines ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

Professional stage instruments, like the Kawai MP8 or the Kurzweil PC88, do not usually include built-in amplification and speaker systems. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Clavinet | Electric & Electronic ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

backing singers. Electronic instruments have always been eagerly embraced by the pop industry as soon as they have become available, and instruments such as the Minimoog synthesizer and the clavinet were incorporated in the 1960s and 1970s by groups keen to create a new ‘sound’, as were both the expressive use of feedback and new pedal effects on the electric ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

but particularly in Germany, where it continued to be played until the early nineteenth century. Arnold Dolmetsch championed its twentieth-century revival, as he did for many early instruments. Clavinet The clavinet is essentially an electric version of the clavichord. Designed in the 1960s by Ernst Zacharias of the German company, Hohner, the clavinet evolved from the Cembalet ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

them trombonist Julian Priester, bassist Ronnie Boykins and saxophonists John Gilmore, Marshall Allen and Pat Patrick. Sun Ra used a number of keyboards, including Wurlitzer organ, clavinet and Moog synthesizer. The Arkestra’s unusual sonic palette added to the other-worldliness of its music. Ra was a strict enforcer of rules, leading the band as a sort of ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel
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