Bang On Stupy, Stupy Bang On

The range of electroacoustic instruments is extremely wide and can only be surveyed here briefly (more details can be found in the author's article 'Electronic instruments in The New Grove Dictionary of Musicial Instruments, 1984).  Keyboard instruments include electric pianos (with strings, struck reeds, plucked reeds or struck rods, amplified by one of the three main types of transducer), harpsichords and a clavichord (the Clavinet). 

Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century

By Hans-Joachim Braun, International Committee for the History of Technology

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CLAVICHORD, ELECTRIC 

An acoustic clavichord whose sound is amplified by electronic means.  By amplifying the sound of an instrument whose remarkably soft volume level can be obliterated by the sound of the human voice, the clavichord can be projected (by microphone and speaker) to an audience and can therefore be used in halls larger than a recital room. 


Margaret van Dijk: The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia
edited by Igor Kipnis

I could go on, but I doubt anyone but a total boob would think that the combined wisdom of Stupy and the Eschatots is more credible than the man who wrote the relevant article in the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, one of the the standard references in the English Language,  and Dr. Margaret van Dijk.  Though the "brain trust", of course, has no idea about credibility.

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The clavichord, perhaps even more so than the piano has undergone extensive modification, first in the difference between the fretted forms, in which more than one note is played on some strings, to the unfretted form, in which each set of strings plays one note.  There was the experiment of having the tangents hit the strings at the exact halfway point to increase the volume by having the entire length of the string sounding.  The invention of forms that use electronic amplification is still a clavichord - which the Hohner company that developed the Clavinet said was their original intention.  They didn't expect it to be taken over by popular musicians.

And there have been jazz recordings that use unamplified clavichords, well they used microphones, of course.  Which, of course, will be used in any recording of clavichord music.  I don't think Stupy has more "street cred" or any other kind of cred than Oscar Peterson did:

Update:   Imagine me knowing more about the history of the electric bass than the pops of power pop, himself, the self- coronated   pope of pop.   The electric bass was invented precisely for pop music.  It was certainly not invented as a replacement for the bass viol as its flat bridge prevented it from being bowed.

You know, Stupy, I think your problem is you and the kollege of musical knowledge at Duncan's don't know the difference between electronic and electro-acoustic instruments.  There is a difference.  Anyone who worked in electronic music would know that.  Heck, anyone who thought about it for a few seconds would know that.

Last Update:   I mentioned the intention of the inventor, not what someone else does with something they invent.  If they intended an electric bass to be a replacement for a bass viol they would have given it a curved bridge and fingerboard.