Hohner
Hohner Pianet
Discontinued 1963Released 1962
The first one, designed by Ernst Zacharias. Sticky leather pads pluck steel reeds and an electrostatic pickup turns that into a bright, short, almost bell-like note. A valve pre-amp inside and a knee lever for volume. Pluck rather than strike is the whole character, and it's why a Pianet chord has gone before a Rhodes chord has got going.
Replaced by Pianet C
Specifications
General
- Manufacturer
- Hohner
- Status
- Discontinued
- Released
- 1962
Keyboard
- Keys
- 61
- Key action
- Synth-action
- Aftertouch
- None
- Keybed
- 61 lightly sprung unweighted keys, F1-F6; each key lifts a pad off its reed rather than striking it
Sound
- Tone source
- Reeds
- Sound engine
- Electro-mechanical: a sticky leather pad lifts off a ground steel reed as the key is pressed, plucking it, and the vibration is read by a variable-capacitance (electrostatic) pickup. There are no dampers, so a note rings until the pad drops back onto the reed.
- Polyphony
- Full polyphony (61 notes)
- Features
- Valve pre-amplifier, Knee-lever volume control, No sustain pedal
Connections
- Outputs
- 1/4-inch unbalanced
