Electric piano
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An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to
A Wurlitzer model 112 electric piano with a guitar amplifier
Phillip Faber playing an electric piano in Copenhagen, 2025
Neo-Bechstein (1931)
Vierling-Förster piano (1937)
Clavinet
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The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds with rubber pad
Electric piano
…pads rather than adhesive pads and replaces the electrostatic system with passive electromagnetic pickups similar to those of the Rhodes. Hohner's "Clavinet" is essentially an electric clavichord. A rubber pad under each key presses the string onto a metal anvil, causing the "fretted" portion of the string…
Hohner Clavinet D6
The Clavinet C
The Clavinet D6, the most popular model, was introduced in 1971.
Stevie Wonder playing a Clavinet D6 in 2006