The Hohner Guitaret was by all accounts a failure. Designed for "heiße Rhythmen", "hot rhythms" to replace the guitar in jazz and dance bands of the 1960s, it never took hold. Not many of these lamellophones were made as a result, and even less survive. Nevertheless it found a cult following by musicians embracing its muted and melancholic tone. In this video I play it, open it up to reveal how it works and explore it's ambient potential.
Guitaret Sketches out is now Bandcamp:
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IMAGE SOURCES:
Picture Ernst Zacharias
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/ernst-zacharias-hohner-clavinet
Photo: Ulrike Muehlbachler
Manual Images:
http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2016/07/guitaret-by-ernst-zacharias.html
https://bibliothek.echoschall.de/hohner-guitaret-prospekt-1966/page/1
Image Factory Trossingen:
https://harmonika-museum.de/100-jahre-bau-v-30-jahre-deutsches-harmonikamuseum-am-tag-des-offenen-denkmals-wird-in-trossingen-gefeiert/