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ARTURIA – Wurli V – USER MANUAL 5
1 INTRODUCTION
Arturia would like to thank you for purchasing our latest modeling electric piano,
Wurli V. We are confident it will become a valuable addition to your music
production studio.
If you’ve purchased our products before, you know we take great pride in
recreating the sound and feel of the original instruments. And then we top it off with
21
st
century features the products might have had if the technology had been
available at the time!
1.1 History of the original instrument
1.1.1 The electric piano
1.1.1.1 Terminology
An electric piano is an electromechanical musical instrument. Sounds are produced
mechanically and then turned into electrical signals by using electronic pickups. This
is quite different from an electronic piano, which simulates the timbre of a piano (or
others instruments) using analog or digital circuitry.
1.1.1.2 At the beginning
The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s; the 1929 German Neo-
Bechstein electric grand piano was among the first. Probably, the earliest model of
electric piano was the Vivi-Tone Clavier created by the Gibson sound engineer and
master luthier Lloyd Loar. When the instrument was discovered in 1994, amazingly,
the instrument was still in perfect tune!
Neo-Bechstein Electric Grand Piano ViViTone Clavier
1.1.1.3 Technologies
Different methods of tone production exist among electric pianos. They vary from
one model to another, the most common are: struck strings (Yamaha, Baldwin,
Helpinstill, Kawai), tuning-forks (Fender Rhodes, Hohner´s “Electra piano”), plucked