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Originally Posted by aleuzzi
What does the clavient sound like? It's a dark, weird sound that Michael McDonald occasionally exploited to good effect on Real Love and a few other songs. On YMLF it's that dark, groovy, funky keyboard sound underneath the electric piano.
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I've always likened it to a 1) duck, or 2) a jazz guitar played through a fuzzbox or an overdriven tube amp.
For some annoying reason, embedding from YouTube isn't working, but here's a guy playing his clavinet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmVBN7EGCVs
Here's another kid jamming hard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7-5a...eature=related
I'm not really positive, but I don't think it's a clav on THINK ABOUT ME. Christine's electronic piano at the time (CP-30) had a ducklike/jazz-guitar sound to it, which could sound like a clavinet in the lower registers (especially the way Christine plays bass lines on a keyboard, which is very rhythmic & staccato). Here's the CP-30, whose sound you'll recognize from all over Tusk & from those touring years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr4FS...eature=related
If Chris is playing clav on her most recent solo album, she's possibly playing a clav simulation on another instrument. There are a number of digital simulations of clavs nowadays -- like the Waldorf Zarenbourg & the Nord Electro -- that eliminate the need to maintain upkeep on the old clavs. The D6s probably went out of production as long ago as 1977. Hohner no longer produces keyboards. Same situation happened with Christine's main electric piano, which was also manufactured by Hohner. Once a model went out of production in those days, you had trouble getting replacement parts.
Here's a guy on YouTube playing the clav simulation on the Nord Electro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfPiP...eature=channel
Only the most advanced ears can tell the difference, so Chris could be playing a "clav" with quotation marks around it.