I don't think Tony Banks was using it on Trespass, no

In that case this wiki page appears to be in error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianet

Maybe it just sounds too much like an electric guitar, because of the fuzz box.

Greg.

I don't think Tony Banks was using it on Trespass, no - just Hammond organ (a spinet model), piano, and having a go on Trident Studio's mellotron. He got the Pianet and started playing it through a fuzzbox when their original guitarist Anthony Philips left.

I do not yet hear it on Tresspass. Do you? I'm not doubting that they used it on that one too - I just can't hear it.  

Anyway, I'm not surprised that Genesis wasn't mentioned in the examples on Simon Beck's Hall of Electric Pianos - we're hearing very disguised versions of the Pianet IMHO. ;^)

Greg.

But I am more interested in why Modartt chose to do the Model T, rather than a Model N. Did Hohner have an input on this decision, perhaps?

Well, you can only model what you can get your hands on. I don't think they had access to a Pianet N before.

But I have one here at Feline HQ and I am hoping very soon to be able to help Modartt out on that score. Patience

Listened to "Nursery Cryme" - I do think I can hear the Pianet N in that album.

Tried the demo of the Electria-Piano - straight away I can hear the nice warm buzz in the bass notes that I hear in Stairway To Heaven - very nice indeed, and it's amazing to be able to play such a rare instrument!  The sound they get in that song is my favourite Electra-Piano sound.

Greg.

Listen to the intro of "The Return of the Giant Hogweed", you will hear it (HINT: it's played through a fuzzbox )

See it with your own eyes here   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P3YyIv7dJ0

Likewise, the keyboard solos in the middle of "The Musical Box" are all fuzzed Pianet N
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35wtfc...page#t=326

But I am more interested in why Modartt chose to do the Model T, rather than a Model N. Did Hohner have an input on this decision, perhaps?

Those were the samples they got as a starting point for modeling.

Until I looked closely, I kept seeing "PLanet" versus "PIanet".

Do you have Italian ancestors? "Pianeta" IS "planet" in Italian. I wonder if Hohner were inspired by the sound to make that pun... just as Eventide were later, after black holes became popular...

I recollect a video of a live gig (Youtube?) where John Paul is performing Stairway on a cased keyboard: lo! an Electra-Piano. I don't think Wikipedia is correct here.

But I am more interested in why Modartt chose to do the Model T, rather than a Model N. Did Hohner have an input on this decision, perhaps?

Tried the demo of the Electria-Piano - straight away I can hear the nice warm buzz in the bass notes that I hear in Stairway To Heaven - very nice indeed, and it's amazing to be able to play such a rare instrument!  The sound they get in that song is my favourite Electra-Piano sound.

Greg.

A good example, IMHO, of the Pianet N sound is "She's Not There", by The Zombies. Like a bright, more percussive Wurly.

Greg.

With the album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", and subsequent albums, Banks phased out the use of his Hohner Pianet N and replaced it with an RMI Electra-piano, which was not really an electric piano at all; it was a kind of all-transistor preset analog synthesizer. (The RMI company was a subsidiary of the Allen Organ company, known for their all-electronic church organs).

I really like the Pianoteq Electra Piano demo songs, although I'm not intimately familiar with that instrument. According to that web site Led Zep' used it.

Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones used the Hohner Electra-piano in the recording studio for everything with Led Zeppelin that involved an electric piano sound. Examples are "Stairway to Heaven", "Misty Mountain Hop" and most famously "No Quarter", where he ran it through an intense tremolo effect.

However when Led Zeppelin performed live, John Paul Jones played those parts on a Fender Rhodes electric piano. This is because the Fender Rhodes was built to be durable enough for touring, whereas the Hohner Electra-piano was a home unit in a wood cabinet and Jones did not consider it suitable to take out of the recording studio.

Note that the W1 should have hammer noise but doesn't

Oh the ironing

Stream of consciousness, observations as they arrived to my mind

Thanks for policing thoughts as they unfold though ED

Modartt havesome a very nice disease sometimes... Santa Claus Syndrome.

I really like the Pianoteq Electra Piano demo songs, although I'm not intimately familiar with that instrument. According to that web site Led Zep' used it, and I do hear the similarities. Great stuff.

Greg.