Sunday, March 7, 2021

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.