Haydn: Minuet in G major

To-day's Haydn's birthday, so here's one of his minuets.  I got this from James Bastien's The Older Beginner Piano Course, Level 2, but it's also in Bastien's Easy Piano Classics.  I used the Pianet T sample.

Bass 3

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So far on this blog, I've been sticking to the Zacharias-designed Hohner keyboards.  I don't know if he had anything to do with these Bass keyboards (which are basically Hohner's version of the Fender Piano Bass), but I think they're interesting, so I'm posting this collection of pictures.  I also found the user manual on Internet Archive (although it seems to be a different edition than what's pictured above).

Bartók: First Term at the Piano, Sz. 53, No. 13 Follow Me

Clavinet D6

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Czerny: Hundert Übungsstücke, Op. 139, No. 19 Allegro

 

Clavinet L

I put this in the post where I transcribed and translated the Clavinet demonstration record, but I thought I'd post it separately too.  Ernst Zacharias playing a Clavinet L:

Telemann: Fantasia in D minor, TWV 33:2: II. Adagio

 

The Kinks' Hohner Pianet

Last week, the Kinks' social media pages posted a picture of the band from 1971.  On the left, there's a Hohner keyboard that I'm pretty sure is a Pianet N.  The style of legs clearly indicates that it's an N model, and from what I can tell, the Cembalet N didn't have the Hohner name printed on the back panel like this instrument does.

(The picture in the Facebook post has a slightly higher resolution, which is the only reason I'm embedding it rather than the Instagram post.)

I have all of the Kinks' albums up to The Village Green Preservation Society (from 1968).  After that, I have only a couple, so I'm not very familiar with this era of the band.  I think the keyboard player here is John Gosling.

This is the first picture I've seen of the Pianet's swell pedal being used.

"Miss Ford Dances"

This is from Colonial Keyboard Tunes Set for Piano or Harpsichord by J.S. Darling.