A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them.
These keyboards include:
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These keyboards include:
- electric pianos such as the Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric piano
- electronic pianos such as the Roland Digital Piano
- Hammond and other electric organ such as the Farfisa and Vox Continental
- analog synthesizers such as Moog, ARP and units produced by a variety of other manufacturers such as Alesis.
- Analog modeling synthesizers produced by such companies as Alesis, and Novation
- digital keyboard workstations such as those produced today by Roland, Yamaha, Kurzweil and Korg
- samplers
- mellotron
- clavinet
- pianet
- piano (but see Pianist for a list of famous pianists)
- harpsichord
- reed organ
- celesta
- clavichord
- pipe organ
- harmonium
- keytar
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