Render from Modartt's Hohner Collection for Pianoteq, authorised by Hohner. Photo: © Modartt, via Modartt, trimmed and resized.
Hohner
Hohner Electra-Piano
Discontinued 1979Released 1965
Hohner's answer to the Rhodes, and the odd one out in their range, with hammers striking tuning forks rather than pads plucking reeds. Warm and resonant, with a stiffer action than a Rhodes. John Paul Jones used one all over Led Zeppelin, most famously on 'Stairway to Heaven'.
Specifications
General
- Manufacturer
- Hohner
- Status
- Discontinued
- Released
- 1965
Keyboard
- Key action
- Synth-action
- Aftertouch
- None
- Keybed
- Not confirmed
Sound
- Tone source
- Tuning forks
- Sound engine
- Electro-mechanical: hammers strike asymmetric tuning forks, each a reed and a bar together, and electromagnetic pickups read them. The same idea as a Rhodes tine, arrived at differently.
- Polyphony
- Full polyphony
- Features
- Hammer-struck tuning forks, Electromagnetic pickups, No sustain pedal
Connections
- Outputs
- 1/4-inch unbalanced
Heard on
Artists and records that used it, as Hohner tells it.
- John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), “Stairway to Heaven”