What makes it even more funny: The inventor, Mr. Ernst Zacharias, couldn't be more "unfunky": He's a nice German with a heavy northern german accent, here's a photo of him a few years ago: www.keyboards.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hohner-Clavinet-D6-1.jpg Hohner is a tradional german company, making instruments like Accordeons (www.akkordeoncentrum.de/akkordeon-bilder/003082-2.jpg ). From time to time the "gods of music" have some fun with that company: When they made Harmonicas for traditional german folk music, they invented by accident the most popular blues harp till today. ;) But when they actually tried to produce instruments for the jazz/pop/blues/... music market, thier success is mediocre, so they produced a wooden copy of the Steinberger bass, see ruclips.net/video/_t8pezR7-vg/видео.html
@@f.herumusu8341 And even though it isn't Hohner, the Hammond B3 has a similar history: It was made to replace church organs wherever space or money wasn't sufficient. Due to this, Laurens Hammond also wasn't a big fan of the Leslie, because (at first, at least) he was all about mimcing a pipe organ and nothing else. Lucky for us, this didn't stop people from using it for anything except church hymns, and it's now a famous and beloved sound for Jazz, Blues, Gospels and more.
Without saying much about how old I am, I have to say that I had the pleasure of playing in the original models of the Clavinet. They were fantastic, and and, overall, they were very new. It was fun! :-)
I hear you. I just bumped into a classic video of The Band rehearsing Down On Cripple Creek, and watched to see which instrument produced those famous funky licks. I figured it for a guitar with a tight wah-wah pedal. How wrong I was. Came to ths video a few minutes later. Reading the Clavinet article in Wikipedia remids me that back in the 1970s I experimented with putting a contact mic on anacoustic clavichord, along with a simple Paia analog kit-built synthesizer. I guess what goes around come around.
it's getting more and more physically difficult, but I need to once again kick myself in the ass for passing on a new/old stock D6 20 years ago for $350.
Me too. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm used to hearing clav sound from cheesy & cheap romplers, but after witnessing the real deal, wow.
The iconic twanging refrain in The Band's "Up on Cripple Creek" was Garth Hudson tickling the keys on one of these; a perfect context for that interesting and evocative sound.
What a delicious instrument and most talented performer! It's great Rhodes is still alive, but here I'm aching for a return of this one and the Pianet-T.
Thanks for playing Superstition in the right key: E flat! Every band I play with has a guitarist that insists on playing in E - which is just wrong 🤣🤣🤣 I'm currently restoring a '78 Clavi D6, and looking forward to put it to good use again 👍
It's too bad so many people associate this instrument with certain...nsfw films. It's truly a wonderful instrument that works well in both the rhythm section and as a solo instrument.
Pardon me, but I'm not familiar with this gentleman (playing), not the videos, but I smiled to myself when I heard him playing a small section of I Wrote A Simple Song (0:28), by Billy Preston, as me Preston loved the Clavinet 🎹
@@danielrc14 no hostility...just indifference. Also, if I had a clavinet to give him I would just play a different song for him. But, it still wouldnt be enough. He would still go on wanting something for nothing and being thankless for everything given selflessly by others only to be met with criticism on song choice. Shame!
Thank you for getting someone who can actually play and not another pretentious hipster who repeatedly stabs the C key while tweaking the cutoff knob and rambling about "warmth."
I have this clip on repeat. Quite impressive. I found your clip by accident. I believe Herbie Hancock, used the D6 Clavinet on "Rockit", at the end of the song. I'm struggling to figure out how to create the sound with Arturia's Clavinet. May i ask if you could assist?
It's extremely light and tremendously responsive. The feel of a D6 is pretty much unique in my experience. It's certainly nothing like the feel of a piano, a synth, an organ or any of the other instruments that I've ever used. It's the "feeliest" keyboard instrument that I've ever used for rhythmic material. The clavinet setting on modern keyboards doesn't hold a candle to the experience of playing the real thing because so much of the great sound of a D6 comes from the dynamic sensitivity of its keyboard. It's a simply magnificent instrument.
GerryMATW so true! But i feel like there are big differences actionwise amongst the models. My model C does have (way) less key travel than the e7 in the studio i used to go. I would describe it like this butterfly keybed in recent macbooks vs older ones...
Featherweight :) There's a clip somewhere on here of George Duke playing a solo on a Clavinet with a whammy bar. It's from a concert and the Clavinet is center stage. He starts playing but it's so funky that he ends up making the most ridiculous funk faces and can barely play the solo LOL
it's funny how instruments in the 70s sound a million times better than anything made today. it's like instrument makers lost their talent. It's actually quite sad.
These are partly because of the fact that these 70s instruments were using real components (in this case tangents, strings, dampers etc) and analog computing systems. Then we moved on to digital computing which is unbelievably precise and efficient. Analog computers were bulkier and a lot less accurate, but these produce artefacts such as soft clipping, unstable tuning, unpredictable behaviour etc which digital instruments intrinsically lack. This has led to music software/hardware companies like Nord, Yamaha, Arturia, Waves etc trying to simulate these artefacts and physical behaviours to match the real thing. These digital copies have an advantage of being much more portable and easier to manage. Sound-wise, if done right it can sound great, but otherwise... The sound of the instrument is questionable.
I'd say better, depending on the effects. Here you can hear the Clavinet being used as the carrier signal for a vocoder :) not something you hear every day: ruclips.net/video/oDy2Eutnsjw/видео.html
They design an electric clavichord, for playing baroque pieces.
We got a Funk machine.
What makes it even more funny: The inventor, Mr. Ernst Zacharias, couldn't be more "unfunky": He's a nice German with a heavy northern german accent, here's a photo of him a few years ago: www.keyboards.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hohner-Clavinet-D6-1.jpg
Hohner is a tradional german company, making instruments like Accordeons (www.akkordeoncentrum.de/akkordeon-bilder/003082-2.jpg ). From time to time the "gods of music" have some fun with that company: When they made Harmonicas for traditional german folk music, they invented by accident the most popular blues harp till today. ;)
But when they actually tried to produce instruments for the jazz/pop/blues/... music market, thier success is mediocre, so they produced a wooden copy of the Steinberger bass, see ruclips.net/video/_t8pezR7-vg/видео.html
@@f.herumusu8341 And even though it isn't Hohner, the Hammond B3 has a similar history: It was made to replace church organs wherever space or money wasn't sufficient. Due to this, Laurens Hammond also wasn't a big fan of the Leslie, because (at first, at least) he was all about mimcing a pipe organ and nothing else.
Lucky for us, this didn't stop people from using it for anything except church hymns, and it's now a famous and beloved sound for Jazz, Blues, Gospels and more.
Like THE funkiest machine
The Roland 808 was designed for Organ Players at church, wedding parties etc. who couldn't get drummer. We got a Hip Hop+Trap machine :>)
Dude, that thing is just drippin with funk
Clavinet in my opinion is the secret sauce to why a lot of the 70's music was so good from Marley to Betty Davis to P-funk, and countless others.
Can't forget Stevie Wonder, dude pioneered the thing
💯
it's ok, but let's not get carried away. not that great.
@@fredsmith6324it literally is that good tho
ruclips.net/video/clylLEoPiao/видео.html
It's amazing that something from the early 1600 with a little bit of electronics can sound this fire. Absolutely incredible
Without saying much about how old I am, I have to say that I had the pleasure of playing in the original models of the Clavinet. They were fantastic, and and, overall, they were very new. It was fun! :-)
If there is clavinet, there also must be Superstiton :)
FnordyGolem that’s right!
Talk about a funk machine !....nuff said 👍🎹🎹🎹
Cause if you really wanna hear our views you haven’t done nothiiiing!
And I always thought this sound was from a guitar
when someone plays guitar down under the stars, it sounds like this
I hear you.
I just bumped into a classic video of The Band rehearsing Down On Cripple Creek, and watched to see which instrument produced those famous funky licks. I figured it for a guitar with a tight wah-wah pedal. How wrong I was. Came to ths video a few minutes later.
Reading the Clavinet article in Wikipedia remids me that back in the 1970s I experimented with putting a contact mic on anacoustic clavichord, along with a simple Paia analog kit-built synthesizer.
I guess what goes around come around.
Think of it a mashup of piano, harpsichord and guitar had a 3some and gave birth to this amazing funky instrument
of course, both being stringed instruments
Haha I always thought it was a heavily effect laden bass
I love how the best instruments in the world were designed for a completely different use than the one which made them famous.
even better when they’re a total commercial failure until someone finds one in the trash and uses it for that completely different purpose
Basically the story with how the Roland 808s and 909s were. You couldn't give those things away. Then Chicago house became a thing and yeah.. history.
Same as with the Hammond organ...
TB303
Like how nobody cared about the saxophone until jazz musicians started playing it.
it's getting more and more physically difficult, but I need to once again kick myself in the ass for passing on a new/old stock D6 20 years ago for $350.
Quit the past, it's impossible
You're breaking my heart, dude
oof man
I'm sure there's a midi version somewhere or a standalone digital keyboard that can recreate the sound well enough.
Yup that deserves a self ass kik
Was that Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" in addition to "Superstition?" I hadn't realized how much was played on the clavinet. Very cool sound.
Tubes12AX7k Nailed it.
There is a great playlist on spotify called 'Clavinet' full of famous clavinet songs
That's right. :D
Back the 70s it was the keyboard disco..funk you name in.was on.a lot of records funk..pop disco 😊👍🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎶
Would love to hear this live, with a band in a small venue. Beautiful!
Clavinet is the most lovely musical instrument I've ever heard.
I have a new respect for this instrument. Always used to think it was kind of cheesy, but no longer.
Me too. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm used to hearing clav sound from cheesy & cheap romplers, but after witnessing the real deal, wow.
The iconic twanging refrain in The Band's "Up on Cripple Creek" was Garth Hudson tickling the keys on one of these; a perfect context for that interesting and evocative sound.
Awesome, checked this out after finding one of these on Craigslist-no I didn't buy it but now I understand the almost $4000 price tag...so good 👍
Funk machine. So beautiful. Thanks.
For those curious, the player here is Tyheim Smith.
2:25 my dude got the Timberland Euro Hiker Boots .... real recognize REAL ✊🏾😉
Love that work with the Fender Rhodes bass
BEST CLAVINET VIDEO ON RUclips ...... BY FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
Its riddiculously funky, I cannot comprehend this level of funk!
Who is the keyboardist? Very nice playing!
Always, loved the sound of analog instruments, this is just a beauty! 😀
I always thought this was a Strat in records
DEFINITELY thought it was a guitar in Stevie's Happier Than the Morning Sun
Same here!
This man making that sweet comp, half of the band already
What a delicious instrument and most talented performer! It's great Rhodes is still alive, but here I'm aching for a return of this one and the Pianet-T.
TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT!
Thanks for playing Superstition in the right key: E flat!
Every band I play with has a guitarist that insists on playing in E - which is just wrong 🤣🤣🤣
I'm currently restoring a '78 Clavi D6, and looking forward to put it to good use again 👍
The Clavinet really comes alive in the right hands. Mine don't qualify, sadly.
This instrument sounds so cool! I love it!
Can listen to this for days. So good.
spirit-lifting musical performance. thx.
I watch this every day
lies
THE BAND used the clavinet with a wawa peddle in "Cripple Creek"
Yup. Garth Hudson made great use of that unique twangy sound.
beautiful. I love that you started out with "Ain't Nobody". I wanna go watch "Breakin" now.
Woah, nice to know our dear little Trossingen has produced something so cool!
Coolest keyboard ever. Reminds me of slumming down the street in a low-rider with a purple fedora and a big pink feather stuck in it.
I want one!
WHAT is this person's name? They are absolutely KILLING it
Great upload. I wondered what a clarinet sounded like and VIOLA! Thanks, Reverb!
It's too bad so many people associate this instrument with certain...nsfw films. It's truly a wonderful instrument that works well in both the rhythm section and as a solo instrument.
ONLY A CLAVINET IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCIN SUCH A UNIQUE SOUND.& IT WAS MY PEOPLE'S DAT INTRODUCED THE WORLD 2 THIS SOUND, WE CAN'T B TOUCHED. ( 3 )
This is a wonderful sounding instrument , is was heavily used in the 70s for part of theme music to a lot of tv shows especially cop shows !?
Clavinet still sounds funky in 2024.
Because you can play soft&loud unlike the harpsichord.
Pardon me, but I'm not familiar with this gentleman (playing), not the videos, but I smiled to myself when I heard him playing a small section of I Wrote A Simple Song (0:28), by Billy Preston, as me Preston loved the Clavinet 🎹
I just learned a clavinet was used on The Gold Bug on Turn of the Friendly Card. I had no idea there was a Stevie Wonder connection to that!
World's funkiest keyboard instrument.
Honestly I'd just really love to see a clavinet demo that isn't superstition or any other kind of staccato funk thing.
Will Adapter look up songs by the bothy band where they play live. They had a black-Keyed one for most of their touring gigs.
then go make one.
NO.
@@Jonnis69 and you're going to give him a clavinet for that, right? so much hostility for a simple comment
@@danielrc14 no hostility...just indifference. Also, if I had a clavinet to give him I would just play a different song for him. But, it still wouldnt be enough. He would still go on wanting something for nothing and being thankless for everything given selflessly by others only to be met with criticism on song choice. Shame!
Man Id buy one of these just to play Superstition and Higher Ground
It's a crime that these are so hard to find
Clavi gnat should perform this in msm!
I love this Clavichord
Thank you for getting someone who can actually play and not another pretentious hipster who repeatedly stabs the C key while tweaking the cutoff knob and rambling about "warmth."
so im suddenly discovering unique instruments in this quarantine
How can the CB pickup configuration, which is normally considered the thinner configuration, still sound so fat?
Clavi gnats instrument.
Is there a way turn off the electronic parts and hear it like a traditional clavichord
Hey, Reverb! Who's the performer????????
This instrument along with the electric harpsichord are meant for Baroque Pop
I have this clip on repeat. Quite impressive. I found your clip by accident. I believe Herbie Hancock, used the D6 Clavinet on "Rockit", at the end of the song. I'm struggling to figure out how to create the sound with Arturia's Clavinet. May i ask if you could assist?
WOW!!!
Hey I've never had the chance to play an actual Clavinet, can someone tell what the key action is like? Is it lightweighted or semiweighted? Thank u!
It's extremely light and tremendously responsive.
The feel of a D6 is pretty much unique in my experience. It's certainly nothing like the feel of a piano, a synth, an organ or any of the other instruments that I've ever used. It's the "feeliest" keyboard instrument that I've ever used for rhythmic material. The clavinet setting on modern keyboards doesn't hold a candle to the experience of playing the real thing because so much of the great sound of a D6 comes from the dynamic sensitivity of its keyboard.
It's a simply magnificent instrument.
GerryMATW so true! But i feel like there are big differences actionwise amongst the models. My model C does have (way) less key travel than the e7 in the studio i used to go. I would describe it like this butterfly keybed in recent macbooks vs older ones...
Featherweight :) There's a clip somewhere on here of George Duke playing a solo on a Clavinet with a whammy bar. It's from a concert and the Clavinet is center stage. He starts playing but it's so funky that he ends up making the most ridiculous funk faces and can barely play the solo LOL
Lighter than you'd expect
Power Stevie's !!
Great play!! Good job bro,keep it up! Thanks for sharing this video.
Great instrument
completely great playing really good wow
Hill Climb racing?
Awesome sound!!
I like the clear plastic sheet music holder, though I wish there was a way to get the scratches out. Sanding?
Novus plastic polish. Used for polishing headlight covers but it's been known to do a good job on radios and turntable dust covers.
Amazing jam! Love it
so do i have to breed a whimzie with a mammot to get this?
Fck this thing sounds so juicy the groove is immeasurable 😎
Wish they stil made 'm.
Likewise. I miss mine tremendously.
who's playing? man he's great.. wish who is he! let us know!
Great woody tone
One gosh darn day I'll be able to afford one of these.
Love this
Great playing! 👌
I can hear Sanford & Son being belted out right now.
Exactly what I was going to say!
I LOVE THIS !
Emerson, Lake and Palmer!
it's funny how instruments in the 70s sound a million times better than anything made today. it's like instrument makers lost their talent. It's actually quite sad.
These are partly because of the fact that these 70s instruments were using real components (in this case tangents, strings, dampers etc) and analog computing systems. Then we moved on to digital computing which is unbelievably precise and efficient. Analog computers were bulkier and a lot less accurate, but these produce artefacts such as soft clipping, unstable tuning, unpredictable behaviour etc which digital instruments intrinsically lack. This has led to music software/hardware companies like Nord, Yamaha, Arturia, Waves etc trying to simulate these artefacts and physical behaviours to match the real thing. These digital copies have an advantage of being much more portable and easier to manage. Sound-wise, if done right it can sound great, but otherwise... The sound of the instrument is questionable.
This player
Clavinet looks like clavi gnat
I love this ❤ you're great
You should’ve played “I wish” by Stevie wonder
The D6 was used for the Spongebob outro theme in every episode.
Ah. So that's the lead in sans. from the Undertale soundtrack, neat.
yo this is pretty neat
Ain't nobody loves me better!
fire playing!
I know this video is old but is there anyway to get analog clav for less than $5,000😭absolutely insane prices
Guitar wah wah is sharp and scary!
Looks fun.
That's some hardcore funkin'. Thought it was a guitar.
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
If you played the clavinet in front of a live audience, they would be CLAV-ing so hard.
Just wow
The Left Bankes Michael Brown used this on the band debut album
Does this thing take effects as good as the Fender Rhodes?
I'd say better, depending on the effects. Here you can hear the Clavinet being used as the carrier signal for a vocoder :) not something you hear every day: ruclips.net/video/oDy2Eutnsjw/видео.html
This is funkier than wearing Kouros for a month
Theres writings on the wall..