# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-zacharias
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:57:48.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-zacharias"
name: "Ernst Zacharias"
slug: "ernst-zacharias"
description: "Ernst Zacharias was 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, was also invented by Zacharias. He additionally 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."
tagline: "German musician (1924-2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-06-21"
deathDate: "2020-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.28
  momentum:             6.174280724331281
  historical:           7.676314666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cac535b7-12db-4c2e-ad29-d6f450fcb51b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "إرنست زاكارياس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ارنست زاكارياس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zacharias"
    title: "Ernst Zacharias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zacharias"
    title: "Ernst Zacharias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zacharias"
    title: "Ernst Zacharias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zacharias"
    title: "Ernst Zacharias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zacharias"
    title: "Ernst Zacharias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernst_Zacharias"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89303"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump