Haydn: Saint Anthony Chorale

 

From James Bastien's Older Beginner Organ Course, Level 1

Combo Pianet

Here's the entry for the Combo Pianet in a Hohner catalogue from April 1973.

Here's my translation of the text:

HOHNER - Combo Pianet

Mechanical-electrical musical instrument that is to be used chiefly as a 3rd manual on an organ or as an additional instrument in a band.  It is merely a playing component that requires suitable amplifying equipment for sound reproduction.

61 piano keys of normal width from F1-f³

Mains connection: 220 V alternating current

Measurements:  965 x 400 x 85 mm

Weight:  14.5 kg  DM 925

Also available:

Stand (model as for Elpiano)  DM 125

Bartók: First Term at the Piano, Sz. 53, No. 19 Smooth Syncopations

 

Symphonic 707

Continuing on in my series of posts about instruments in an April 1973 Hohner catalogue, here's the Symphonic 707 (pictured with the Universal-Pedal):

Here's my translation.  As with the other entries, I'm unsure of the accuracy of some of the technical terms, especially "Chor" (which I translated as "section") and "Einschwingvibrato" (which I translated as "transient vibrato").

HOHNER - Symphonic 707

This seven-section, transportable musical instrument has a foundational timbre ("sine") in every section and because of this becomes an ideal instrument for all modern music styles like pop, beat, jazz, swing, sweet, but also for playing popular romantic, classical, or manualiter forms of sacred music.

Technical data:

Two-manual portable model - 2 x 49 manual keys

Key range c-c - upper keyboard with slant, lower keyboard with even keytops

New, smooth, and quiet register switch

Upper manual seven sections

Every section with two intensity levels

Lower manual three sections

Every section with two intensity levels

Manual bass 24 notes, two sections - manual bass volume smoothly adjustable with slide control - percussion four sections

Repeat for the percussion sections 8', 4', 2⅔', 2'

Vibrato I - Frequency vibrato, additionally playable with transient vibrato, attack time switchable in 2 times

Vibrato II - phasing vibrato for "dry playing" of manual bass + percussion - pedal connection for sustain pedal built-in

1 register switch for 8' - 8'+16'

Pedal volume and sustain/decay time smoothly adjustable with slide controls - foot swell 3-channels

Possible with 3-channel operation:  simultaneously the treble can be played over a Leslie box, and the percussion can be played "dry" without Leslie effect over a separate system

Size:  109 x 53 x 20 cm, weight with accessories:  47 kg

DM 4700

Pedal with sustain  DM 700

Slanted stand for S 707  DM 25

Telemann: Fantasia in G major, TWV 33:7: I. Presto

 

Symphonic 65

Because the Symphonic 65 is pictured with the Clavinet D6 in the April 1973 Hohner Catalogue I've been translating, that's the first instrument I turned my attention to after translating the entries for the Universal-Pedal and what I consider the "core" instruments:  Pianet, Clavinet, and Electra-Piano.  (The Cembalet doesn't appear in the catalogue, so I suspect it was out of production by this point.)

Here's the entry itself:

My translation is below.  As with the other entries, I'm not sure of the accuracy of some of the technical terms (especially "Einschwingvibrato," which I translated as "transient vibrato").  The phrase "stufenlos regelbar" occurs a number of times.  "Stufenlos" is literally "step-less," but I translated it as "smoothly."

HOHNER - Symphonic 65

Fully electronic, polyphonic, portable instrument with 61 keys - C-c, range: Contra C - B⁵

Manual division:  Lower 24 keys switchable to main manual - accompaniment manual - bass.  Main manual:  16', 8', 4', 2⅔', 2' and mixture; Accompaniment manual:  8', 4', 2' separately adjustable with 3 slide controls; Bass: 8', 16' + 8'.  Volume smoothly adjustable, percussion on/off, decay time smoothly adjustable.  Frequency vibrato:  on/off, +/-, slow/fast.  Transient vibrato:  on/off, attack time short/long.  Percussion:  8', 4', 2⅔', 2' separately controllable.  3 timbres, intensity, and decay time smoothly adjustable.  Repeat:  the percussion sections can be played with repeat, decaying repeat, and (controllable) continuous repeat.  Repeat speed smoothly adjustable.  Repeat and percussion are effective on the right side of the manual.  2 connection possibilities:  one-channel/two-channel (bass and right side of the manual separately).  Entire volume regulation with foot swell.  Weight (with stand): 30 kg.  Case measurements:  1000 x 466 x 181 mm  DM 2350

Slanted stand for S 65  DM 25

On Instagram, I found some pictures of a Symphonic 65:

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Bartók: First Term at the Piano, Sz. 53, No. 18 Are You Near?

 

Clavinet L

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