Saturday Synth Porn: This video, via AnalogAudio1, takes a look at the Hohner String Performer, a vintage string machine from 1977.

About the video:

The Hohner String Performer is a fully electronical string machine made in Germany. It has strings in 3 footages (CELLO, VIOLA, VIOLIN), which are mixable via volume faders. Also CLAVICHORD and PIANO presets, all free mixable. Each half of the keyboard has these features. A bass preset can be added to the left half of the keyboard.

On the right, there is a simple monophonic preset synthesizer with 4 presets: BRASS, STRING, CLARINET and PLANET. To be honest, I didn’t know that a planet could be a musical instrument – but Hohner should know 🙂

The String Performer is fully polyphonic and has a decent analog string tone. It is quite large and heavy.

If you’ve used the Hohner String Performer, let us know what you think of it!