Czerny: Hundert Übungsstücke, Op. 139, No. 13 Allegro

Couperin: Le petit rien

From Bastien's Easy Piano Classics

Czerny: Hundert Übungsstücke, Op. 139, No. 12 Allegro

Five Man Electrical Band's "Werewolf"

Like I mentioned here, I haven't found a source that verifies that the electric piano in Five Man Electrical Band's "Werewolf" is actually Hohner Pianet, but it certainly sounds like one to me.  The tremolo (labelled "vibrato" on the instrument itself) seems especially characteristic.

Last week, I figured out the Pianet part.  It plays just root notes in the bass register during the verses.  In the second and third verses ("But mama said, 'No, somethin' real strange 'bout my Billy...'" and "So papa said, 'I guess there's only one thing to do 'bout Billy...'"), the part is:

Note that the part is played an octave lower than my notation.

The other three verses are a bit different.  The fourth verse ("But he went down to the blacksmith, got him outta bed, and said, 'Get your fire hot...'") lacks Pianet entirely.  In the first verse ("Mama said, 'There's somethin' weird 'bout Billy...'") only measures three through eight are played, and in the fifth verse ("Then we heard a shot, and I said, 'Papa got 'im'..."), the first A note (and possibly also the third line) isn't played.

Haydn: German Dance, Hob. IX:22, No. 2

Originally, I found this on IMSLP, which gives the catalogue number as Hob. IX:22, No. 2, but then I discovered it's also in Easy Piano Classics, which has better fingerings, more interesting articulation (the staccato notes), and a few more notes compared to what I found on IMSLP, so I used that version for my recording.

Five Man Electrical Band's Hohner Pianet

Back in April, I remembered some videos of Five Man Electrical Band I'd seen years ago, and I thought that they'd had Hohner Pianet in them.  I was able to track them down again and confirm this.

The video quality is pretty bad, but both videos show a Pianet N.

Live performance of "Absolutely Right"

Miming to "Money Back Guarantee"

As far as I can tell, there haven't been many re-issues or compilations of the band's work.  All I have is Absolutely Right: The Best of Five Man Electrical Band.  Here's the track listing (excluding the single edits of "Signs" and "I'm a Stranger Here"):

1. "Signs"
2. "Dance of the Swamp Woman"
3. "Hello Melinda, Goodbye"
4. "Moonshine (Friend of Mine)"
5. "The Man with the Horse and Wagon"
6. "Absolutely Right"
7. "Coming of Age"
8. "Country Girl Suite"
9. "Julianna"
10. "I'm a Stranger Here"
11. "We Play Rock'n Roll"
12. "Money Back Guarantee"
13. "Werewolf"

I can't find any information to confirm this, but to me, the electric piano in "Dance of the Swamp Woman," "Coming of Age," "Julianna," and "Werewolf" sounds like Pianet, and the electric piano in "Signs," "Hello Melinda, Goodbye," and "The Man with the Horse and Wagon" (in which it appears only briefly, at ~1:52) sounds like Wurlitzer.  I'm not sure about the electric piano in "Absolutely Right," "We Play Rock N' Roll," and "Money Back Guarantee."  It sounds like the electric piano in "Money Back Guarantee" has an effect applied to it (it's especially easy to hear at ~1:50), which makes it even more difficult to identify.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the keyboard player's name is Ted Gerow.