Showing posts with label Pianet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pianet. Show all posts
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026
The Moody Blues' "Lose Your Money (But Don't Lose Your Mind)"
Last week, Denny Laine's Instagram account posted a video of the Moody Blues miming to "Lose Your Money (But Don't Lose Your Mind)" on Ready Steady Go! in 1964.
Mike Pinder appears to be playing a Hohner Pianet (years ago, I wrote about a slightly better quality picture of it), so the video seems to confirm a suspicion I had earlier this year after listening to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Magnificent Moodies (for only the second time): Pinder played Pianet on "Lose Your Money (But Don't Lose Your Mind)." It's a bit buried in the mix, though.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026
The Zombies' Hohner Pianet
This picture of Rod Argent and his Pianet (the C model, I think) was recently posted on the Zombies' Instagram account. The caption claims that this was the 1964 session at Decca when "She's Not There" was recorded, although I'm a bit skeptical of this. A second post (with this picture and various others) shows Chris White with his Gibson bass, which he got after the "She's Not There" session. In this video, he explains that he used a homemade bass on "She's Not There."
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Fleetwood Mac's "Spare Me a Little of Your Love"
Recently, the Reelin' in the Years archive uploaded a video of Fleetwood Mac performing "Spare Me a Little of Your Love," from the same 1975 concert that I've posted about before (specifically "Station Man" and "Rhiannon"). Christine McVie plays organ for roughly the first half of the song but then switches to Hohner Pianet N:
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon"
I recently watched some Fleetwood Mac videos on YouTube, and among the recommended videos was a live version of "Rhiannon" from the same 1975 performance as "Station Man," which I posted about last year. Although she's not shown very much in the video, Christine McVie is playing a Hohner Pianet N.
(Just as a warning: during the guitar solo, there are some really fast edits, which can be a bit unsettling.)
I'm pretty sure the studio recording of "Rhiannon" doesn't have Pianet, though. It sounds like a Fender Rhodes to me.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
Chicago Live at Tanglewood (Lenox, MA), 21 July 1970
A number of years ago, I watched this concert by Chicago and noticed that Robert Lamm plays a Pianet N. Earlier this week, it was the fifty-fourth anniversary of the concert, and I watched it again so I could post it here.
Below is the set list from the video description (although it fails to identify the first song). Lamm plays Pianet in every song but "I'm a Man," which is the encore.
- [unidentified song]
- "In the Country"
- "Free Form Piano"
- "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
- "25 or 6 to 4"
- "Poem for the People"
- "I Don't Want Your Money"
- "Mother"
- "It Better End Soon"
- "Beginnings"
- "Make Me Smile" / "So Much To Say, So Much To Give"
- "Colour My World" / "Make Me Smile"
- "I'm a Man"
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Fleetwood Mac's "Station Man"
Recently, the Reelin' in the Years Archive uploaded a video of Fleetwood Mac performing "Station Man" in 1975 to its YouTube channel:
I hadn't heard any version of this song before, but I noticed that in this live performance at least, Christine McVie plays Hohner Pianet throughout. I'm pretty sure it's a model N.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Pianet T
Here's the description from the ad:
YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOUHOHNER PIANET TFor the traveler, Hohner's Pianet T ‒ a compact electro/mechanical piano weighing just 38 pounds. The keyboard has 60 standard size piano keys for a five octave range. Amplified headphones permit private listening, and the Pianet T requires no batteries or electric power. Retails for about $650.
Sunday, July 23, 2023
The Band at Casino Arena
Last week was the anniversary of a concert the Band performed at Casino Arena on 20 July 1976. I watched the concert via this official YouTube playlist, although as of this writing, there are four private videos that are unavailable. In any case, Richard Manuel is playing a Hohner keyboard on some of the songs. The set up (with a Mu-Tron Bi-Phase and an ARP Pro-Soloist) seems to be the same as what's shown in this picture from June 1976:
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Because the audio and video quality of the concert isn't the best and because Manuel seems to use the phaser on some songs, it's difficult to tell whether the keyboard is a Cembalet or a Pianet, but based on the above photo (which definitely shows a Pianet; the high end of the F-F key range is visible) and the close time frame, I'm assuming it's a Pianet. The legs clearly distinguish it as an N model.
I'm more familiar with the earlier Band albums, but as far as I know, none of the studio versions of these songs features Pianet.
"Twilight"
"Ophelia"
"Forbidden Fruit"
"Life Is a Carnival"
Garth Hudson seems to be playing Clavinet on "Up on Cripple Creek," but it's not visible at all:
In previous posts about the Band, I noted that Hudson had a Clavinet II, but in this picture from the Last Waltz (in November 1976), a Clavinet C is visible:
I don't know which model he plays at this concert in July.
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UPDATE (20 July 2026)
Because to-day's the fiftieth anniversary of this concert, I watched it again. Since I wrote the above, the YouTube channel has been rebranded (I think it had been "The Band on MV" [MV for Music Vault], but now it's "Cruise Control," with a wider focus than just the Band), and the four previously unavailable videos are available. Of these, two feature the Hohner keyboard.
"The Shape I'm In"
"King Harvest (Has Surely Come)"
If I'm not mistaken, the studio version of "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" doesn't have any Hohner keyboard, but the studio version of "The Shape I'm In" features both Cembalet and Clavinet.
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Argent on Set of 6
Recently, Argent's appearance on Set of 6 was uploaded to the Zombies Fan Club YouTube channel. The date given is 29 May 1972, but in Jim Rodford: Sideman, Rodford (the bass player) writes, "In April, we recorded a special for Granada TV called A Set of 6" (p. 177). Maybe 29 May was the broadcast date. In any case, Rod Argent is playing a Pianet N, the newer of the two models he had (see my detailed post on his Pianets here). He uses it for most of the songs, namely "Liar" (with what seems to be some kind of phasing effect), "Rejoice," "Sweet Mary," and "Keep on Rollin'." Aside from "Liar," none of the studio versions of these songs features Pianet.
Sunday, May 21, 2023
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