The amazing keytar history from 1800 to 2012

[@KeytarKris]

Absolutely love this! 🎹🎸🤟

[@carpetsmell2523]

To be continued? Wheres part 2?!?!

[@robfriedrich2822]

0:30 The Weltmeister Basset was a product from East Germany. It was related to the electric piano "Claviset" and there was fixed dynamic. It was working like a music box.

[@jazzualdo]

Junost 21 my favourite. Thanks for posting!

[@mlm6915841]

Let's not forget the UNIVOX Compac Piano used onstage by Edgar Winter and Billy Preston in the '70's. Plus the ARP 2600, used by Edgar Winter on Frankenstein. The keyboard was separate from the synth and was easily worn around the neck. These are the first examples I can think of of anyone playing a vertical keyboard in concert. Plus Jan Hammer chopped the keyboard off his MiniMoog so he could do the same thing. Also the MicroMoog was light enough to put around your neck as well (I did this a few times back in the day!) Great video!

[@OfficialRainsynth]

AX Synth... Only once to have it and play it... That feeling that all power of music is on your arms...

[@samzoneinfo]

10k... and counting. Thanks for making this!

[@michelgaudry]

80s, the golden age

[@PeterRosenqvist]

This is cool vintage stuff, thanks for posting. ;o)

[@ze-ce.cra_]

2009 also have Manson Keytarcaster used by Matt Bellamy of Muse for their Resistance album

[@romanrikus8476]

Спасибо, видео действительно эксклюзивное.

[@theaudioeng]

Fun vid! Didn't see my Unisynth XG-1m in there though 😭. I believe made by Suzuki / licensed out to Mitsubishi (?) c.1981. Has real steel strings to strum and a rubberised touch sensitive fretboard. Pretty cool (assuming rubber hasn't gone sticky now, which fortunately mine hasn't as yet ...) 🎹

[@mikehydropneumatic2583]

Really nice, once had a Korg 707.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

I have an Alesis Vortex Wireless Keytar & they've made a newer version called Vortex Wireless 2.

[@FanTCStudio]

I hope toy liked it! ;) It was a lot of work but I enjoyed it.

[@eilselnosnibor]

Thank you for all your effort, very interesting.

[@randyravenscraft8814]

I still have an AZ-1- still works fine!

[@josealejandrogarcia3672]

The Alesis Vortex is Really cool...! :D

[@fritsmemelink5608]

Cool video !!

[@PuertoRicoDJ]

Wow... great research! Very useful information. Thanks!

[@TBoneProductionsVB]

Cool stuff in here but I don't consider the ones that are just regular keyboards with straps keytars.

[@yotrakzproductions7324]

Interesting with respect to how each country has its own shape aesthetics. France...hunh? Italy...arrrgh! Japan...actually got better over the years. I'm partial to Germany, Russia and in most cases USA shapes. Nice vid.

[@powerbatterychannel4315]

Great history! Thanks!

[@appleneworleans4018]

I'mblind. Can you make abetter video?

[@studiofox4159]

Very interesting video thanks..insecte and circular(mad max) was made by lag only for jean michel jarre..for the design best one for me is lag the key and the last korg rk100S.Best friend stay AX synth

[@AljoniMusiCo]

Insightful!!

[@SotR59]

I dabbled in keyboard during 80's and 90's so was aware of many of these but some I never heard of, pretty interesting. Had no idea Russia produced some. At first I was thinking, oh come on no demo's? But when I saw the sheer volume and how many different ones I understood that would be hours long and many probably would difficult if not impossible to hunt down.

[@jamesantoine4318]

awesome

[@mikomon309]

Bravo!!! THANKS!!!

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

Hey folks, synth nerd ,keys player and card carrying keytar owner since '86 here. Cool presentation and all, especially the earlier entries but lets get real..... the damn Omnichord is NOT a keytar! Barely an instrument. A lot of the smaller mono synths (e.g. CS01) that were shown are also NOT keytars. Saw strap cleats on poly 800 and such and were used as 'shoulder synths' but still not keytars. Great topic though. Own your inner dork! Happy shredding.

[@dvamateur]

Wow, the Alesis Vortex has aftertouch? I have to check it out. So far, my all time favorite has always been Yamaha KX5. Have two of those. One so MINT, I am afraid to touch it. The other one, gets a lot of workout. To me, making a strap-on keyboard (I dispise of name keytar very much) without aftertouch on the keys should be a crime...

[@DagToreLarsen]

Interesting video)) Just make notice that Roland AX-Synth have 49 keys... not 45!

[@FanTCStudio]

Thanks! Stupid typo, I have one myself....LOL!

[@FanTCStudio]

WOW 10,000+ views!!!! If there are enough likes I will make an updated version.

[@VictoriaYanezM]

Haha very cool video! very interesting, but I suggest you to never use that background again, or that typography, it doesn't look serious =(

[@FanTCStudio]

Thanks, Maria, it's based on the flower power era, the 60's 70's, I like it.....but oké I will use something different the next time.

[@sparklestaralzarjawi8687]

12:49 I don't understand

[@therobwood]

wow thats a lotta work. gj

[@chascarlson6896]

Great work. Thanks so much!

[@FeonaLeeJones]

proud owner of the korg poly 800 II !!!

[@Tranzphonic]

It's funny how the Rock Band controller has some of the best specs compared to keytars w/o sound

[@osakaben10]

i use the RB3 controller with many different VST'S....pound per pound (and a clearance price of 20$ at gamestop) you can't go wrong....i play it daily and plan to gig with it soon!! Keytars Rock!

[@spidergoalie33]

1. Omnichords aren't keytars. 2. It is spelled "Modulation" not Modylation. I had several of these...the Poly 800, the Sh-101, the CZ-101, and I still have a CS-01 and a KX-5.

[@djoctav3120]

Holy shit my name's Henry M. too bro!

[@XxChrisxXBedofRazors]

7 years later... Roland AX-Edge.

[@roberthaines4221]

I dunno . . . most of these through about 1983 don't qualify as a keytar in my book. Many of these are simply keyboards that have strap buttons on them. A keytar is supposed to be a hybrid of a keyboard instrument and a guitar, and what is the characteristic of a guitar? It has a neck, giving the musician something important to do with their left hand. No neck, no function for left hand, no keytar.

[@staffofawesome]

awesom i gave it a like!!! :)

[@FanTCStudio]

Do a search for Orphica, there is a video where you can hear a replica.

[@BigDogDaddyD]

Let someone else choose the background noise next time.

[@aseomg]

Hope the music for this video was made with a keytar, shame if it wasn’t.

[@romainlabaye]

The background music wasn't necessary.

[@yamiimax]

Keyboard mixing with normal keyboards

[@Paseoman]

LMAO @ 10:15

[@takemetoyonk]

now I'm getting a Korg Rk 100S

[@papyrus1113]

Yonk did you get one?

[@ramvijayentertainments424]

162

[@distortedmacintosh7020]

Dude, a large amount of these aren’t even keytars!!!!!! Seriously man do some damn research once in a while

[@jacquelinecastro130]

Hate history so hate this video.