Sunday, October 30, 2022
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Pianet Mark 1
Here's a picture of a Pianet Mark 1 I downloaded from the internet a couple years ago. If I remember aright, this was from an eBay auction, but when I clickt on the link, eBay couldn't find the listing.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Sunday, October 2, 2022
Manfred Mann's "Sticks and Stones" and "Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)"
Recently, Reelin' in the Years uploaded a video in which Manfred Mann (the band) performs "Sticks and Stones" and "Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)." Manfred Mann (the man) is playing an early model Hohner Pianet:
The date is given simply as 1964, but a banner in the video says, "New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert," which, according to numerous internet sources, occurred on 26 April 1964.
I closely examined the woodgrain of the Pianet and discovered that it's the same instrument seen in this picture dated 10 August 1964:
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This is the instrument that, if my analysis is correct, Mann had modified so that he could adjust the volume with a Vox pedal instead of the knee-control lever that the Pianet came with.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Sunday, September 25, 2022
"Alte Volksweise"
Recently, I remembered that while poking around on IMSLP last month, I found a collection of three hundred German folk songs and that I'd intended to look through them to see if I can find the tune that closes the first side of the Hohner Pianet demonstration record (labelled just "Alte Volksweise" on the record sleeve and called only "ein kleines Volkslied" in the narration). As a first step to identifying the tune, I learned and transcribed the melody.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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