Render from Modartt's Hohner Collection for Pianoteq, authorised by Hohner. Photo: © Modartt, via Modartt, trimmed and resized.
Hohner
Hohner Clavinet D6
Discontinued 1979Released 1971
The sound of funk. Sixty steel strings under the keys, each fretted by a rubber pad, which is why it bites and why it stops dead when you let go. Six rocker switches to the left set the tone (Brilliant, Treble, Medium, Soft) and pick which of the two pickups you hear, and a mute slider on the right damps the strings for the choppy sound everybody copies.
Specifications
General
- Manufacturer
- Hohner
- Status
- Discontinued
- Released
- 1971
Keyboard
- Keys
- 60
- Key action
- Synth-action
- Aftertouch
- None
- Keybed
- 60 keys, F1-E6
Sound
- Tone source
- Strings
- Sound engine
- Electro-mechanical: a rubber tip on the end of each key presses a tensioned steel string down onto an anvil, fretting it like a guitar. Two sets of magnetic pickups, switchable, read the string.
- Polyphony
- Full polyphony (60 notes)
- Features
- Two switchable pickup sets, Four tone rockers: Brilliant, Treble, Medium, Soft, Mechanical mute slider, No sustain pedal
Connections
- Outputs
- 1/4-inch unbalanced
Heard on
Artists and records that used it, as Hohner tells it.
- Stevie Wonder, “Superstition”
- Herbie Hancock, “Chameleon”