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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Ernst Zacharias
- Ernst Zacharias (born 21 June 1924) is a German musician and engineer.
- In the 1950s and 1960s, he invented various electro-mechanical musical instruments for the German musical instrument manufacturer Hohner, including the Cembalet, the Clavinet, the Guitaret, and the Pianet.
- The Claviola, a modernisation of the sheng and the Harmonetta, a mouth-blown concertina-keyboarded instrument, were also invented by Zacharias.
- Despite that he invented the Electra-Melodica, the first commercially produced wind synthesizer.
- DEPATIS lists 90 patents by Ernst Zacharias for Hohner, including plastic recorders and watch and clock mechanisms.
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