Showing posts with label The Kinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Kinks. Show all posts

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.