Clavinet

electric keyboard musical instrument

The Clavinet is a musical instrument. It is an electric clavichord. Ernst Zacharias invented it. The Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, built clavinets from 1964 to 1982. The clavinet is like a piano. It makes sounds like an electric guitar. A clavinet has hammers with rubber pads that hits strings to make sounds. Pianos have hammers with felt pads, and they have bigger strings.

A Clavinet on a stand.
A Clavinet on a stand.

Stevie Wonder used the instrument for many songs, including his 1972 hit "Superstition." The clavinet is in many songs from rock, funk, and reggae music in the 1960s and 1970s.

A Hohner Clavinet played through effects units and an amplifier

The clavinet must be plugged into an electric amplifier to make sounds loud enough to enjoy. Most clavinets have 60 keys.[1]

References

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  1. Lenhoff, Alan; Robertson, David (2019). Classic Keys: Keyboard sounds that launched rock music. University of North Texas Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-57441-776-0.