Hohner
Hohner Pianet L
Discontinued 1968Released 1963
The self-contained one, with speakers and an amplifier built into the case, so it needed nothing but a mains socket. The LB variant ran on batteries, which in 1963 was close to a miracle.
Specifications
General
- Manufacturer
- Hohner
- Status
- Discontinued
- Released
- 1963
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
- Internal speakers and amplifier, Battery power on the LB, No sustain pedal
Connections
- Outputs
- 1/4-inch unbalanced, Internal speakers
