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 ...

Keyboard players can often only look on as their band mates get to feed off the energy of the audience at the front of the stage. If only they had an instrument they could strap on like a guitar ...

The keytar revolution is among us. Soon every band in the world will have a dedicated keytar player. The guys behind this amazing musical device just got the Keytar Inc website going and they also ...

Keytars, almost by definition, are charmingly goofy. How could they not be? They're wearable pianos that lend themselves well to pageantry. Racks of meticulously prepped synths come with a sort of ...

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 ...

Rumor has it that the keyboard icon that folks saw at the end of the Green Day: Rock Band demo for Rock Band 3 is not for a keyboard but a keytar. Yeah, our mouths hit the f**king floor too, and not ...

The Keytar is the single most obnoxious instrument in modern music. It was the worst part of a keyboard (plastic and monophonic), married to the... On this week's All Songs Considered, we listen to ...

When I was little, my cousin passed down to me a mini, musical, electronic, talking keyboard. She figured that because I really liked music and I really liked “technology” (or what could pass for ...

The kitschy appeal of the keytar refuses to die. Modern-boogie revivalist Dam-Funk, who plays the New Parish in Oakland next Wednesday, is a committed fan of the inspired amalgamation of guitar and ...