List of keytars
A keytar is a keyboard or synthesizer hung around the neck and shoulders, similar to a guitar.
List of keytars
- [no grip] ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ — keyboard model without control grip.
- [opt grip] ^ ^ — keyboard model with optional control grip.
| Dates | Model | Type | I/F | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1795 | Orphica[1] | acoustic piano | – | a portable miniature piano in horizontal harp form. |
| 1963 | Weltmeister Basset[2] | electric bass piano using struck reed | – | an electric piano bass, similar to Hohner Bass or Rhodes PianoBass, used by dance bands in East Germany probably late 1960s. |
| 1966 | Joh Mustad Tubon[3] (in the UK: Livingston)[4] | electronic bass organ | – | tube-shaped monophonic electronic keyboard instrument with guitar strap. Used by Paul McCartney in 1966 to compose the intro of "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967) (later replaced by Chamberlin),[4] Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk on the album Kraftwerk (1970),[4][5] Swedish and Finnish bands during the 1970s, including Lådan.[6] |
| 1977 | Hillwood RB-1[7] | synth piano | – | influenced by Edgar Winter's style of hanging a keyboard from a neck. Used by Haruo Chikada (The Vibratones). |
| 1977 | Powell Probe | controller | (CV/Gate) | Roger Powell's keytar by Royalex |
| 1979 | PMS Syntar[8] | synthesizer | (CV/Gate) | an earliest synthesizer keytar product, prior to the Moog Liberation in 1980 |
| 1980 | Davis Clavitar | controller | (CV/Gate) | used by George Duke, Herbie Hancock in 1980. |
| c. 1980 | Davis Clavitron | unknown | unknown | |
| 1980 | Moog Liberation | synthesizer | CV/Gate | |
| 1980 | Royalex Probe | controller | (CV/Gate) | Jan Hammer's keytar by Royalex, ca. 1980. |
| 1982 | Dynacord Rhythm Stick (Jamma)[9] | percussion controller | MIDI & CV/Gate | |
| 1982 | Roland SH-101[opt grip] | synthesizer | CV/Gate | control grip was optional. used by Bob Casale (Devo). |
| 1982 | Sequential Circuits Remote Prophet | controller | SCB | used by Geoffrey Downes of ASIA and Dave Stewart. (SCB:Serial Control Bus, a MIDI prototype developed by SCI) |
| 1982 | Yamaha CS01[no grip] | synthesizer with breath controller | CV/Gate | used by Chick Corea in the early 1980s. |
| 1983 | Yamaha KX1 | controller | MIDI | used by Herbie Hancock in 1983, George Duke in 1983. |
| 1983 | Korg Poly-800[no grip] | synthesizer | MIDI | |
| c. 1983 | Yamaha CS01II | synthesizer with breath controller | CV/Gate | |
| c. 1984 | Korg Poly-800 MkII[no grip] | synthesizer | MIDI | |
| 1984 | Casio CZ-101[no grip] | synthesizer | MIDI | a medium size keyboard with strap pins |
| 1984 | Korg RK-100 | controller | MIDI | |
| 1984 | Yamaha KX5 | controller | MIDI | a medium depth keyboard |
| 1985 | Lync LN1 (The Lync) | controller | MIDI | |
| 1985 | Roland AXIS | controller | MIDI | |
| 1985 | Yamaha DX100[no grip] | synthesizer | MIDI | a mini keyboard with strap pins |
| 1986 | Casio AZ-1 | controller | MIDI | |
| 1986 | Siel DK70[opt grip] | synthesizer | MIDI | control grip was optional |
| 1987 | Korg 707[no grip] | synthesizer | MIDI | a synthesizer with strap pins |
| 1987 | Yamaha SHS-10 | electronic keyboard | MIDI | |
| c. 1987 | Tyco HotKeyz | toy keyboard | – | a toy keyboard |
| 1988 | Lync LN4 | controller | MIDI | also Jan Hammer signature model existed. |
| 1988 | Yamaha SHS-200 | electronic keyboard | MIDI | |
| 1989 | Tsumura JD21[10] | percussion controller | MIDI | |
| 1990 | Lync LN1000 | controller | MIDI | |
| c. 1990 | Formanta Mini | synthesizer | (MIDI) | |
| 1991 | Junost 21 | synthesizer | (MIDI) | |
| 1993 | Roland AX-1 | controller | MIDI | |
| 1994 | Zendrum | percussion controller | (MIDI) | |
| c. 1999 | Baldoni Midi Accord | accordion controller ? | MIDI | |
| c. 2000 | Suzuki MK-3600 YAMAHA YMK-80 | electronic keyboard | MIDI | a keyboard for marching band |
| 2000 | Lag LeKey | controller | (MIDI) | |
| 2001 | Roland AX-7 | controller | MIDI | |
| c. 2002 | Casio SA-75 | electronic keyboard | MIDI | a mini electronic keyboard with handsfree microphone and strap pins |
| c. 2007 | Zen Riffer Solo Axe | controller | (MIDI) | |
| 2008 | Behringer UMA25S[no grip] | controller | USB & MIDI | |
| 2009 | Roland AX-Synth | synthesizer | USB & MIDI | |
| 2009 | Stoneboard | controller | MIDI | |
| 2010 | Politrep[no grip] | controller | MIDI | |
| 2010 | Roland Lucina AX-09 | synthesizer | USB & MIDI | |
| 2010 | Mad Catz Rock Band 3 Wireless Pro Keyboard | controller & video game controller | MIDI & console specific | |
| 2012 | Alesis Vortex | controller | USB & MIDI | |
| 2014 | Alesis Vortex Wireless | controller | USB & MIDI | first keytar with wireless USB connection to a PC or laptop |
| 2014 | Korg RK-100S | synthesizer | USB & MIDI | used by Rick Astley in 2016 |
| 2017 | Yamaha Vocaloid Keyboard | synthesizer | USB[11], Bluetooth LE[12] | To be released in "Winter 2017".[13] First wearable prototype in 2014;[13] limited rental available in 2015 [14] |
| 2018 | Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 | controller | USB & MIDI | |
| 2018 | Roland AX-Edge | synthesizer | USB, MIDI, Bluetooth LE |
Custom/rare keytars
Rare keytar products
- Delmar Brown "Illuminator" (illuminating display attached to keytar)
- Guess Musical Instruments "Schizotron", a product which combined keyboard and guitar/bass
- "Nissin C-16", a custom keytar version of Casio SK-1, distributed as lottery goods for promoting Nissin Cup Noodles
- Suzuki "Omnichord" and "QChord", electronic chord instruments inspired by Oscar Schmidt Autoharp
- "Zen Riffer", used most notably by Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater.
Drum/Percussion keytars
Custom made keytars
- In alphabetically order :
- "Alien Guitar Simulator", a selfmade keytar by Le Orme keyboard player Michele Bon.
- "Arcadetar", a keytar-like keyboard controller combined a pitch sensor in 20 inch. (50 cm) long, developed by Italian musician Andrea Lomuscio of Teapot Industries in 2012.
- Jeri Ellsworth's FPGA-based C64 keytar[15]
- Lady Gaga's custom made keytar during The Monster Ball Tour in 2010.
- "Lag Circulaire" made for Jean Michel Jarre
- "Lag Insecte" made for Jean Michel Jarre
- "Lag Mad Max" made for Jean Michel Jarre
- Matthew Bellamy's "Keytarcaster" Manson, made for playing Undisclosed Desires from Muse's 5th studio album, The Resistance
- Prince's "PurpleAxxe", also played by Tommy Barbarella
- "Politrep", a copy of the Zen Riffer keytar made by order at the website space4keys.com
- "Remote" for Jean Michel Jarre's studio by Lag
- "Syblade", a keytar designed to be unique and to inspire.
Customized keytars
- Based on minimoog keyboards
- Custom minimoog keyboard used by Gary Wright and Steve Porcaro around 1976.
- Cruder, Jan Hammer's early custom keyboard with block shaped controller.[16]
- Plexi minimoog keyboard used by George Duke
- Based on Yamaha KX series
- Jean Michel Jarre's custom KX5, two versions: Houston and Docklands Concerts.
- Lights Poxleitner plays a rare Yamaha KX5 keytar.
- Based on Roland AX series
- Vadim Pruzhanov of DragonForce and Henrik Klingenberg of Sonata Arctica both use a custom Roland AX-7 (although nowadays Henrik Klingenberg uses custom Roland AX-1)
- Christopher Bowes of Alestorm owns a Roland AX-7 which he has customised over the years with various stickers of animals.
- Jeff Abbott, long-time keytar player and product demonstrator for MusicLab plays a custom wooden keytar based around a Roland AX-1.
Gallery
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Royalex Probe (1977/1980) played by Lucy Hosking
PMS Syntar (1979) by George Mattson
Moog Liberlation (1980)
Davis Clavitar (1980) played by George Duke
SynthAxe (1985) by Bill Aitken, et al.
Yamaha KX-5 (1984)
Korg RK-100 (1984)
Yamaha SHS-10 (1987)
Lync LN-1000 (1990).jpg)
Zendrum series (1994)
Roland AX-7 (2001)- Zen Riffer Solo Axe (2007) by Roy Wooten
Mad Catz Rock Band 3 Wireless Pro Keyboard.jpg)
Korg RK-100s (2014)
See also
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References
- ↑ "Orphica (?Vienna, c. 1805)". Centre for Performance History, Royal College of Music.
- ↑ "Weltmeister Basset". blackroses.de. Archived from the original on 2002-03-22.
- ↑ "Joh Mustad AB Tubon (1966, Sweden)". Stockholm Music and Theatre Museum. Archived from the original on 2012-04-22.
- 1 2 3
"The 'Tubon' Joh Mustad AB, Sweden, 1966". 120 Years of Electronic Music (120years.net).
The instrument was manufactured by in 1966 by the Swedish manufacturer of electronic tube organs, Joh Mustad AB, in Gothenburg, Sweden and also sold under license in the UK as the ‘Livingstone’. Very few of the instruments were sold outside of Sweden but one was purchased by Paul McCartney ( the original score for ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ includes a Tubon intro which was replaced by a Chamberlin on the final recording) and by Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk in the early 1970s.
See also: photographs of Paul playing Tubon 1, 2 (at the Schloss Hotel in Hamburg, during The Beatles’ last world tour), Tubon part score of "Strawberry Fields Forever". - ↑
Sean Albiez, David Pattie, eds. (2011). "Kraftwerk (1970)". Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop. A&C Black. pp. 100&ndash, 101. ISBN 978-1-4411-9136-6.
It is also worth mentioning the use of phasing and the application of ring modulator effects to the keyboard's Tubon sound, which gives the music an industrial quality.
- ↑ "Lådan: Va i helvete har dom för sig inne i banken efter tre?". YouTube.
- ↑ "Rockeyboard RB-1". Hillwood Keyboard / Synthesizer Catalog 1977. Hillwood Musical Instrument/Zen-On.
- ↑ James D. Maier. "The Performance Music Systems Syntar".
- 1 2 "The Jamma & Dynacord Rhythm Stick official site".
— including the stories, photographs, videos, technical stuffs and manuals (see below).
- Dynacord Rhythm Stick MIDI - operating manual. Dynacord.
- UK application 8,423,427, Jones Peter Stephab (Dynacord Electronic-Und Geratebau GmbH & Co.), "A Music Synthesizer, Especially Portable Drum Synthesizer", published 1984-09-17 (EP 0195038 A1 (published on 1986-09-24), WO 8601927 A1)
- US patent 4,867,028, Peter S. Jones (Dynacord Electronic-Und Geratebau GmbH & Co.), "Music Synthesizer Especially Portable Drum Synthesizer", issued 1989-09-19 (a continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 871,442, filed as PCT EP85/01927 on Mar. 22, 1986, now abandoned.)
- 1 2 "JD21 official manual" (in Japanese). Tsumura Inc.
- ↑ Yamaha Corporation. "VKB-100 - 仕様". jp.yamaha.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ↑ Yamaha Corporation. "VKB-100 - Apps". jp.yamaha.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- 1 2 Yamaha Corporation (31 August 2017). "VOCALOID Keyboard" (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ↑ Yamaha Corporation. "JOYSOUNDでVOCALOID™ KEYBOARDと歌おう！" (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ↑ http://blog.makezine.com/2012/05/19/jeri-ellsworth-rocks-a-commodore-64-keytar/
- ↑ Jan Hammer playing Cruder in 1970s. ShowBiz.cz (photo).
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