Simply put, the clavinet is an electric guitar in a box. It's keys are affixed with a rubber-tipped stem which lands squarely on the corresponding string below. The sound is captured by a pair of foot-long pickups, which run into a 9 volt preamplifier. The later D6, E7, and Duo models all incorporporate a muting lever for pizzicato sounds.

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