Sunday, July 11, 2021

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: