Mine is a "brand new" D6, yes because it was never used during his entire life. The original buyer kept it in its enclosure for over 20 years, then he sold it to another guy who just used it once and kept it for other 5 years under his bed until I bought it. And I'm not using it that much either! So, it's practically NEW. In this video I'm playing it through a Laney LC15 tube guitar amp.
Had no idea you could get so many different sonic textures from a Clavinet. I used to think it was just a one-trick pony. Impressive, thanks for posting.
I was a few seconds away from buying one last December. I sure regret it now. A wonderful, funky, beautiful D6 in mint condition. Hope she has a good home now.
We just got our D6 delivered to our house today... it sounds old and cranky, but we're giving it a complete overhaul and hooking it up with a Fender Twin Reverb in a few months... I can't wait...
I think you can't figure how important what you're playing at 0:41 . I know it can sound a little bit weird but, It motivated me to push forward and helped me being myself as a musician, now i'm studying music at the university. U boosted my curiousity man.
he also designs really god VST plugins using interesting audio synthesis methods. take this, he made a physically modeled replica of the clavinet (ZD6 Die Funky Machine) which sounds pretty good, and a B3 organ (VB3 and VB3-II) which sound even better.
nice. A plank with strings is all that you really need. Sounds nicely tuned. That is essential. Underrated and more versatile instrument than normally thought of. Cheers
@WILFARA I can't answer your questions, but its just because when it was 'electrifyed' the sound had to be altered. A Hammond B3 is supposed to "emulate" a pipe organ actually.
Hey Genial! Thank you for this video! Course its not the same, but I'm trying to simulate a good clav sound, but with not reference. You videos showing the pick-ups, and other functions was very helpfull. A lot of funky!
I like what you play at 0:50-1:20. I don't know anything about jazz but it sounds kind of jazzy to me, is this a song or is there any specific inspiration?
I love this instrument! I have yet to acquire one of my own. I just finished restoring and refurbishing my Fender Rhodes Suitcase 88 MKI. Keep it up man!
I would also add next to Stevie, the amazing Roger Joseph Manning Jr. playing on Beck's Mutations and especially Sea Change. Highly original way of using the Clavinet more like a guitar.
@Fizz102 I'm no expert, but i would imagine some EQing on the amp, plus playing slap on your bass, and a Wah pedal would do the trick pretty well; no synth pedal needed. I feel like the EQ would need to be treble heavy, but really, the majority of the clavi sound would come from your slap playing and the wah. Hope that helps.
i love that damper button XD you cannot having that sound on emulation, also the wah wah effect still better with the original one. i need to found this instrument somewhere.
For some of the funkiest Clavinet playing around, I highly recommend "Finders Keepers" By Chairman Of The Board, from 1974. Clavinet played by Andy Clark. It's on UA-cam.
thanks, that was really interesting. I always wondered why people can't just use keyboards, but I didn't even realise clavinets were mechanical- they must be expensive though!
The funniest thing about the clavinet is that it evokes flashbacks of cheesy 70's porno films. For that reason you can't play a ballad on the clavinet. :)
really awesome dude! could you make a video teaching how to play some funky stuff with clavinet? people would love it 'cause there are no videolessons on youtube specific for clavs.
Awesome! Thanks for showing the insides, that was what I was looking for, but your playing is awesome too. The slider on the right, from what ive read, that increase tension in a yarn weave that the strings pass through, right?
If I had one of these and could play like this I would play it all day! How do these work anyway? I know it uses strings to produce the sound as I could see a few when it was opened up, but how is the sound picked? Is it like on an electric guitar? Also is there a string for every key like on a piano?
Just stumbled upon this looking for information on clavichords (interestingly enough, whenever I've heard these Clavinets in songs I wondered what this instrument was; now I know, lol), but from what I understand, it's basically just an electric clavichord, it uses a magnetic pickup like an electric guitar to pick up the sound (at least, that's what wikipedia says). By the way, I used to watch your channel a lot a few years ago, though I totally forgot about you 'till now. Cool to see you're still around.
They haven't got any strings, but sort of Kalimba-like short steel tongues that vibrate. The real knack lies in the 'pluck' -technique: The keys inside have sticky ends (a special non-drying glue, that has to be freshened up after some years), if you press a key, the sticky end will lift the corresponding tongue up to a certain point, until the glue can't hold the tension and releases the tongue to vibrate. This enables dynamic playing, unlike the clavinet's predecessor, the cembalet, which worked with harpsichord like 'pluckers'. Hope you roughly get an idea....
sorry - you are wrong! The clavinet has a string for every key and you hit the strings with a "hammer" attached to every key. Hohner tried to electrify a cembalo......Probably you meant the Hohner Pianet.?
Never heard the "Marley Clav" tune.however for the "Wonder" tune i assume u mean the "Superstition Clav". if u are,then on that tune,this is what was used,a "Mutron III" filter box,a autowah,and 3 Clavs,all being run through a delay.
he zioguido, just a musician trying to get that sound on my keyboard. could you please explain to me how this instrument works, do you use a pedal to get those effects your sound or does your keyboard do that automatically? Do you know if it's possible to get a sample of that sound, so I can get it with my MIDI keyboard? thanx a lot I like how you play..
The funkiest instrument on this planet. LOVE IT!!!!!
Mine is a "brand new" D6, yes because it was never used during his entire life. The original buyer kept it in its enclosure for over 20 years, then he sold it to another guy who just used it once and kept it for other 5 years under his bed until I bought it. And I'm not using it that much either! So, it's practically NEW.
In this video I'm playing it through a Laney LC15 tube guitar amp.
Never sounded better than it does on Stevie Wonder albums.
I agree totally!!
Rex Mundi I dunno, John Paul Jones used a D6 too, with Trampled Under Foot, In The Light two examples of how funky and great it can sound.
Incorrect.
And prince is very first album
Herbie Hancock's use of it was pretty unparalleled, especially with the wah pedal. Billy Preston's use of it on Outta Sight is epic, too.
Damn, I've been coming back to this video again and again for 10 years! Awesome playing
Had no idea you could get so many different sonic textures from a Clavinet. I used to think it was just a one-trick pony. Impressive, thanks for posting.
+catboyzee Yeah, seems like everybody used the same sound which does sound cool but it'z fun to hear the other soundz it can create
70s instrument..not often heard today in music..love the sound if that instrument
Billy Preston ruled this instrument!
I was a few seconds away from buying one last December. I sure regret it now. A wonderful, funky, beautiful D6 in mint condition. Hope she has a good home now.
Kerry was one of the real Geniuses in that band, of course they all were. Gentle Giant is one of my favorite groups.
Man. Imagine this thing through some fuzz pedals lol
llGeassll overkill funk
even just through an amp with a bit of crunch would do the trick
@@dandann8437 I don't know if you will get it but...
RA RA RASPUTIN
I'm no expert, but that part where he started with "Smoke on the Water" sounded pretty fuzzy to me.
I like how Led Zep- used the Clavi on Physical Graffiti like on Trampled under foot and others
Agreed, not many realize Jon Paul Jones was a great clav player
such a cool instrument!
We just got our D6 delivered to our house today... it sounds old and cranky, but we're giving it a complete overhaul and hooking it up with a Fender Twin Reverb in a few months... I can't wait...
I think you can't figure how important what you're playing at 0:41 . I know it can sound a little bit weird but, It motivated me to push forward and helped me being myself as a musician, now i'm studying music at the university. U boosted my curiousity man.
WOW, that is the coolest sounding instrument ever. That, or the vibraphone, cant decide
One of the best "Clavi" tunes I've ever heard was Billy Preston's 'Outtaspace'
it's a D7 sharp 9 - as in starting from the bass: D (with LH), F sharp, C and F natural.
Really neat channel BTW. Channels like this are why i stick around on youtube despite many of the choices youtube makes as a company
he also designs really god VST plugins using interesting audio synthesis methods. take this, he made a physically modeled replica of the clavinet (ZD6 Die Funky Machine) which sounds pretty good, and a B3 organ (VB3 and VB3-II) which sound even better.
nice. A plank with strings is all that you really need. Sounds nicely tuned. That is essential. Underrated and more versatile instrument than normally thought of. Cheers
That thing kicks ass, dude. I'm a bass player myself, but I've started getting into keyboards a bit, and damn do I want one of those things.
Awesome sound and playing! Thanks for sharing!
It's an Electric Clavichord that plugs into an amp.
@WILFARA I can't answer your questions, but its just because when it was 'electrifyed' the sound had to be altered. A Hammond B3 is supposed to "emulate" a pipe organ actually.
Hey Genial!
Thank you for this video! Course its not the same, but I'm trying to simulate a good clav sound, but with not reference. You videos showing the pick-ups, and other functions was very helpfull.
A lot of funky!
Great groove on your clav playing!
I like what you play at 0:50-1:20.
I don't know anything about jazz but it sounds kind of jazzy to me, is this a song or is there any specific inspiration?
Check out that beautiful GROOVE.
I love this instrument! I have yet to acquire one of my own. I just finished restoring and refurbishing my Fender Rhodes Suitcase 88 MKI. Keep it up man!
I can hear a little Zep in there. Moog, Mellontron, Rhodes, Wurli, Clavi, all
great souns. I'm sure i'm leaving one out.
well, there is the nord stage ex, and if you get the one with 88keys you get also fully weighted keys.
I want one so bad, I just come on here and pine. Do you still have it all these years later?
You sound great. That's a really cool instrument
That thing has an incredibly insane sound!
I agree with SirArthur56 down there. Play Trampled Underfoot from Led Zeppelin! That would be sick, dude!
That was a delight to listen to. Thanks!
My fav keyboard. I want one soooo bad
Pick one up on ebay. They cost around 500$ :)
Nice. Sounds suspiciously like Stevie Wonders superstition at the start. The Jazzy bit is cool.
I love it! The instrument of funk! How about Billy Preston's "Outta Space" ... thats like the best clavi-funk I've heard.... Nice playing Zio
Fantastic playing. You should learn Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Under Foot." Its got some great Clavinet playing.
Chris Winther that’s exactly what brought me here. JPJ did some great things with the clavinet. Great stuff.
I would also add next to Stevie, the amazing Roger Joseph Manning Jr. playing on Beck's Mutations and especially Sea Change. Highly original way of using the Clavinet more like a guitar.
@Fizz102 I'm no expert, but i would imagine some EQing on the amp, plus playing slap on your bass, and a Wah pedal would do the trick pretty well; no synth pedal needed. I feel like the EQ would need to be treble heavy, but really, the majority of the clavi sound would come from your slap playing and the wah. Hope that helps.
Funky to death !
The perfect sound. Coupled with a deep fender rhodes, + a round P-Bass.
I love it.
Could you play some Commodores - Machine Gun…?
I'm jealous! How the hell do you get hold of something like this? And the Hammond B3 - top of my wish list!
Good stuff. I don't understand the 18 'dislikes'... Rock on!! :)
i love that damper button XD you cannot having that sound on emulation, also the wah wah effect still better with the original one. i need to found this instrument somewhere.
For some of the funkiest Clavinet playing around, I highly recommend "Finders Keepers" By Chairman Of The Board, from 1974. Clavinet played by Andy Clark. It's on UA-cam.
so cool..thanks for the peek inside as well.
i now understand exacly what people mean when they say ''they dont make things as good as they used to''
I love the wooden end of D6.
gary wrights supernova sound in My Love Is Alive was a clavinet fed thru an echoplex. inthestudio.
Made my day.. Really liked the funky stuff you had going! Keep it up!
Nuthin' like a Clavinet! Keyboard father of funk
Sweet board man!
@zioguido
the correct notation would be D7#9
Holy shit, that thing has SASS!
thanks, that was really interesting. I always wondered why people can't just use keyboards, but I didn't even realise clavinets were mechanical- they must be expensive though!
I think I loooooove dat funky sound.
Wow you definetly should do smoke on the water on clavinet, that part sounds amazing
0:21 cool fill!
I love this sound in ELP.
Вот как раньше делали синтезаторы! Даже без электричества могли играть!
dios como suena eso!! es hermoso!!
E7 and D6 are identical, except for a better ground shielding in the E7
What are you playing 0:50 to 1:09? Sounds sick!
bro killin it!
The funniest thing about the clavinet is that it evokes flashbacks of cheesy 70's porno films.
For that reason you can't play a ballad on the clavinet. :)
really really good..
Bella zio, complimenti per l'acquisto... Dobbiamo presto attenderci un'emulazione di questo spettacoloso Clavinet? :)
@auroraweddingband my fave keyboard instrument is between the D6 and a minimoog model d.
wow! have never seen one! so it's almost like a hammond, on the look. coolish!
I want this Man...I love the clavinet...
Great video! Thank you!
These things are way underrated
Sounds wonderful!
youtube needs more videos of people jammin out on clavinets
reminds me of 80's Nintendo games
Holy hell, that's some smooth playing!
really awesome dude!
could you make a video teaching how to play some funky stuff with clavinet? people would love it 'cause there are no videolessons on youtube specific for clavs.
awesome!
especially the part through the guitar amp sound great......just like john lord ;)
Awesome! Thanks for showing the insides, that was what I was looking for, but your playing is awesome too. The slider on the right, from what ive read, that increase tension in a yarn weave that the strings pass through, right?
The Who used this, a Prophet 5 and a Yamaha CS80 on Eminence Front
spettacolo! :D
If I had one of these and could play like this I would play it all day! How do these work anyway? I know it uses strings to produce the sound as I could see a few when it was opened up, but how is the sound picked? Is it like on an electric guitar? Also is there a string for every key like on a piano?
Just stumbled upon this looking for information on clavichords (interestingly enough, whenever I've heard these Clavinets in songs I wondered what this instrument was; now I know, lol), but from what I understand, it's basically just an electric clavichord, it uses a magnetic pickup like an electric guitar to pick up the sound (at least, that's what wikipedia says).
By the way, I used to watch your channel a lot a few years ago, though I totally forgot about you 'till now. Cool to see you're still around.
They haven't got any strings, but sort of Kalimba-like short steel tongues that vibrate. The real knack lies in the 'pluck' -technique: The keys inside have sticky ends (a special non-drying glue, that has to be freshened up after some years), if you press a key, the sticky end will lift the corresponding tongue up to a certain point, until the glue can't hold the tension and releases the tongue to vibrate. This enables dynamic playing, unlike the clavinet's predecessor, the cembalet, which worked with harpsichord like 'pluckers'. Hope you roughly get an idea....
sorry - you are wrong! The clavinet has a string for every key and you hit the strings with a "hammer" attached to every key. Hohner tried to electrify a cembalo......Probably you meant the Hohner Pianet.?
super funky!
Great video !!
dude that sounds fucking awesome.
mother of god, I need one of these
Very nice playing. Sounds great man !!!
Awesome
Jimmy Page also does such a screaming solo on that tune...
great instrument you got there.
bet you could play some rick wakeman on that = D
Have you heard Kenny Minnear on the Clav with Gentle Giant? Mega!
Never heard the "Marley Clav" tune.however for the "Wonder" tune i assume u mean the "Superstition Clav". if u are,then on that tune,this is what was used,a "Mutron III" filter box,a autowah,and 3 Clavs,all being run through a delay.
he zioguido, just a musician trying to get that sound on my keyboard. could you please explain to me how this instrument works, do you use a pedal to get those effects your sound or does your keyboard do that automatically? Do you know if it's possible to get a sample of that sound, so I can get it with my MIDI keyboard? thanx a lot I like how you play..
Awesome funk!
And it sounds perfect!
If you ever own a clavinet in your life, the rule is to play stevie wonder!!!!!
you ought to listen to Graham Central Station.s first 3 albums. Hershall Kennedy was the bomb on clavinet.
pretty awesome instrument man. you in the C7 scale or something?
0: 50 - 1:16 is my favorite part of them .can you give me the chords of this few seconds ????pls
sick tunes!
So awesome!