Cool keyboard

[Basvarken]

These seem to be pretty rare: a Castle Clavinet with a Whammy bar.
Great analogue sounds. Never seen one before.
I stumbled upon this thing when I saw a Lachy Doley video on YT

[Dave W]

That's pretty nifty. It would be interesting to hear it without all the effects.

[Basvarken]

Like a normal Clavinet that can bend the strings I suppose 

Like this, but with a whammy

[gearHed289]

I've seen those (online only). Pretty cool. I'm not sure analog is even the right word for it, being more mechanical than electronic. I always wished I could throw down the funk on a Clav!

[Alanko]

I think George Duke had something similar.

[Basvarken]

Yes the guy in the video mentions him.

[chromium]

Fun video of that one in action here...

[Basvarken]

Yeah saw that one too. It's the same guy grom the vid in the first post right?

Lachy Doley is fun to watch too

[OldManC]

Hot damn those sound good! The evolution one is great!

[chromium]

You couldn't give Clavs away in the 80s-90s, but over the past ten years or so there has been renewed interest.  Even the basket cases seem to fetch 500-1K.  I love restoring that kind of stuff, but hard to even find a project for a reasonable price these days.

Someone has even reissued the old Castlebar system.  Quite a bit of work involved to put one in.  A bit like installing a whammy on a guitar with five octaves worth of strings 

https://kenrichsounds.com/shop/hohner-clavinets-pianets/clavinet-whammy-bar-system/

Yeah saw that one too. It's the same guy grom the vid in the first post right?

Lachy Doley is fun to watch too

Yeah same guy from your OP.

I hadn't seen that Lachy Doley clip - very cool!

[mc2NY]

Wow!! Ya mean Jan Hammer actually missed a way he could have been MORE annoying with that dopey guitorgan he strapped on ??  😀😀😀😀

[Basvarken]

No. Jan Hammer couldn't have been any more annoying than he already was!

[gearHed289]

I've never been annoyed by Jan Hammer. Listened to some Mahavishnu yesterday as a matter of fact.

[amptech]

I've never been annoyed by Jan Hammer. Listened to some Mahavishnu yesterday as a matter of fact.

Jan is great, both with Mahavishnu but I am fond of other projects too, like the timeless album he did with John Abercrombie and Jack DeJohnette.

But I too must admit that the synth guitar stuff is somewhat unsetteling, some of the JB stuff he did is not quite as tasty as things he did in the past. Jan Hammer is one wine that did not age well, you ask me.

[gearHed289]

JB was my intro to Hammer. I LOVED the dueling solos/pseudo guitar stuff that he did on Wired, but I'm big on synths in general. I don't have any of his solo stuff, but I don't doubt some of it grates on a lot of people.