We can’t think of where you’d buy a new, cheap, MIDI keytar that’s just a keyboard and a handle with some pitch and mod wheels or ribbon controllers. This is a format that died in the 90s or ...

All it took was an old keytar and a withered bear costume to launch one local man into underground celebrity stardom. If you have the Internet, ride the MBTA, or know people in Boston, then it’s ...

[Jeri Ellsworth] finally set aside some time to talk about the build process for her Commodore 64 bass keytar. We think what started by taking a band saw to the guitar body ended up as a fantastic new ...

Noted rock vocalist and bass player Glenn Hughes (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and more recently Black Country Communion) has often been quoted as saying that, for him, much of the 1980s was ...

Pianos and keyboards can be huge beasts, meaning that players are often set to one side of the stage behind the front line of guitarists, bass players and vocalists. Not always though. Edgar Winter ...

What is it? Depends on your point of view. On one hand, it's the biggest totem of 1980s cringe there is this side of the piano-key necktie. On the other, it's a misguided, if heroic, attempt to make ...

I am not a musician. In fact, I’m the only one of my siblings incapable of playing an instrument. So Yamaha’s Sonogenic SHS-500 is ostensibly intended for me. It’s a neat $500 keytar that, in addition ...

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Until now, if you wanted to look exceptionally silly playing an electronic instrument the keytar was your best bet. Not anymore. That’s all changed with the introduction of the iTar, a “Guitar/DJ ...

On this week's All Songs Considered, we listen to some great new electronic music. These days, there's a flood of creative electronic sounds, both danceable and laid-back. We've seen this flood of new ...