Weltmeister Claviset 200 Demonstration Electric Piano and Harpsichord Hybrid
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Steve Christie takes us on a tour of the Weltmeister Claviset 200 electric piano/ harpsichord / cembelo hybrid at Vintage Keys Studio.
It has a line out that is running through a Laney LC30 amp, miked with one Oktava MK012 condenser.
Video and editing by Louisa Revolta
Talking, music and daft art by Steve Christie
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the bit about the legs was great this channel is so underrated
do a vox continental video though please and thank you 😊
This channel gives me all the sensations of a fever dream...in the best possible way.
hahahaha, totally
My father has the same model, so I had opportunity to play on it. It is interesting experience to play such vintage instrument instead of MIDI controller :D
i'm Right..... to say this channel is Bloody great..
I was actually looking for the Eastern Bloc/Soviet-made electric piano for my surf/instro project. This seems to be a perfect match. Thank you!
Glad to have been of help!
You’re the funniest guy in the UK currently
Sounds like a kalimba that has a keyboard. I like it.
Same principle
Absolutely beautiful walk through. This is perfect. it's got the tech, it's got humour, it's got musicality. The dampers and plectra look sadly short lived and hell to replace. Thank you, thank you.
Thank YOU! :)
They make replacement pads called “stickey pads” for the similar Hohner Pianet. I wonder if those could work as a replacement ( might need a bit of modification) ?
Love all these videos! Thanks for always going so in depth and thoroughly breaking down all the features. Keep them coming!
It’s so odd that it’s great! Thanks for the walk around. Never heard of this one before.
The way you say this was 'involved' in that. Like it took part in some sordid affair :D.
Weltmeister Christmasset 😄🎄
Nice to see one working! :) I have the budget model Claviset, without the switches, and it's falling apart and makes no sound. Those hammers will break, if you even look at them. But it looks nice.
By the way, Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark used the Selmer Pianotron on their first album. Merry Christmas.
Would you sell your busted one?
@@jodiepagan3298 I probably would, but I'm afraid that shipping will destroy it completely - it's very flimsy in construction.
Wow, very very unique and strange sound.
the editing is brilliant, and youre really bloody funny mate, big things are coming!!
God, it sounds like the backing track for a GDR numbers station!
Thanks for all you do! Very talented
I appreciate that! Thank you
@@VintageKeysStudio Look forward to your next video!!
Love your content dude! Got a hohner pianet T last week and has a similar sound, only thing that its passive hahah. Keep up the good content!
Thank you! Congrats on your pianet! I have a rare hohner clavinet L model that I am trying to mend at the moment - hopefully will do a video on that once it is fixed
Marry Xmas Dude!
Merry Christmas Richard!
This vid has everything. Insight. Innovation. History. Music. And a spiffingly sexy dummy's leg.
Thank you - yes the leg is one of my more sexy prized possessions
You can hear this instrument in period arrangements in the soundtrack of the cult Soviet comedy Diamond Arm from 1969. The first time at about the 10 minute mark, instrumental part of the Island of Bad Luck song: ua-cam.com/video/B-iVfLX2tvY/v-deo.html I think it was either the Celesta or Metallophone setting. Next, there is a bit at about the 44 minute mark, followed by a groovy twist on a transistorized organ, fishing scene: ua-cam.com/video/B-iVfLX2tvY/v-deo.html Also, scene at the Weeping Willow restaurant: ua-cam.com/video/B-iVfLX2tvY/v-deo.html Again a bit at 1 hour 12 minutes: ua-cam.com/video/B-iVfLX2tvY/v-deo.html A very interesting vocal-instrumental piece can be heard at 1 hour 15 minute mark: ua-cam.com/video/B-iVfLX2tvY/v-deo.html It is a very good comedy and a cultural icon in the post-Soviet countries, highly recommended, you can watch it in full here on UA-cam, in HD with English subtitles, directly from the film studio that produced it.
And of course - I forgot - the opening music also features the Claviset.
Thank you, I'll take a look.
I can't wait to see you doing a demonstration on your Hammond Solovox J (1940)
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Cheers - it is in need of some fault finds - might get it done over the Christmas holiday, so stay tuned!
@@VintageKeysStudio Ok.
Weltmiester who are based in what was the old east Germany specialise in high quality accordions, hence the switches on the piano are made like those coupler switches on an accordion. Also the metal bars attached to the keys are the same as in their piano accordions that have the felt pads on that would cover the holes on the read plates of the accordions allowing air to either pass through to t(e reeds when a key is depressed or stopping the flow of air when released.
Thank you very much - I didn't know that!
I wonder if its reeds and pickups were of hohner quality, it would sound good? Or the action contributes to the weird tone. I’m guessing it’s a bit of both. Not sure how this plucking vs pulling of a pianet would effect the sound
You had me at “plectra”.
Weltmeister is mainly an Accordion builder, the latching switches remind me of Accordion registers.
Another brilliant video, thank you! Informative and very entertaining, as always. I've got a couple of legs for you - they are hairy and fat, though. I keep my Organ Donor (how wonderfully coincidental!) card on me all the time, so will let you know when the time comes for you to come and pick them up. Merry Christmas.
Looking for a pdf of the schematics / service manual for the selmer pianotron! If anyone has them please let me know :-)
sound like a brother between clavinet and a harpsichord
Estonian band Noor Eesti used it a lot.
Call me a philistine but I'd love to hear this through some sort of distortion or overdrive unit
Sometime I will do just that - I have some mad things planned… stay tuned
Switching to another tab now to begin searching for a claviset...
Thanks a lot for sharing this review! Just great to see the instruments in action, their almost forgotten stories told - while usually we only know the sounds they make!
You use it to spread the spirit of Christmas while the origin of the "Weltmeister Claviset 200" was the former socialistic part of Germany - where Christmas never got a status any comparable to the western countries. It's a noteworthy fun fact I think.
There is also hiding a further funny ambiguity in the naming of this instrument manufactured in the former socialistic GDR/East Germany. Because "Weltmeister" is for "World Champion". As all of us know today the USSR finally missed the "Championships" in terms of world leadership due to the western supremacy. But in the 60s this outcome was not that clear and a lot of people took on every chance to let the world know about the desired (imminent) victory. Very likely it's a coincidence - but maybe it's about sophisticated propaganda in disguise ;-D! All the best :-)!
Thank you Curtis and thanks very much for the wonderful calendar!!! Also the magazines which I will forward when I see KH :)
@@VintageKeysStudio You're welcome! Big thanks for forwarding the print issues, too. Have a great time :-)!
Very good German pronunciation!
Interesting instrument = not one I've come across before.
Is this the one featured in The Packabeats’ “Theme From The Traitors” (“01:30)?
That sounds very much like it’s a Hohner Pianet on the Packabeats song. I haven’t heard any songs done by Joe Meek with a Selmer pianotron featured, but hoping someone will let us know! :)
@@VintageKeysStudio Yes, you’re most likely right.
Any examples of this on records? Joe Meek maybe?
I am not aware of anything particularly… anybody???
It’s funny how the different “preset” buttons are just ever so slightly nuanced EQ boosts / cuts. It’s a fairly interesting sounding thing, but I’d take a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer or a Pianet over this any day.
it's funny than on these instruments settings like "guitar, celesta, piano" have nothing in common with the real instruments, its only different filter point xD i don't know why they print such a names on it. Also the vibrato was in fact tremolo (i understand that vibrato would be very hard to achieve in this construction). Most people usually complain than the early synths from the 80s didn't mimic real instruments convincingly, so how about this one? :D
Haha
Dear Vintage Keys Studio, could you tell me how to tune this instrument? I have 2 of them but can't make them to play because they are both a little bit detuned key by key. I hear good, I just don't know how.
Thanks in advance
This is one I haven’t looked into the tuning yet. I will have a look and get back to you. I should imagine it is a matter of unscrewing and adjusting the length of the metal bars
Is there supposed to be a harpsichord sound but no sample of that
No, it has a mechanism a little like a harpsichord (plucking) but isn’t meant to sound like one
My god....its a electrical keyboard kalimba
Okay You're wrong. I'm right.
Curiously somebody???? Does anyone know how much it weighs?
funny
Are you feeling OK? Your face looks a bit jaundice in this video. Hopefully that is just the lighting.
I will check my kidney function before the next video :)