There is perhaps no more potent symbol of ‘80s rock star excess than the keytar, an instrument that freed musicians to strike poses around the stage while hammering out synthesized riffs. Korg ...

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 ...

NAMM 2014: Five years after Roland revived the keytar with the AX-Synth, Korg is putting its own contemporary spin on the performance-friendly keyboard with the announcement of the RK-100S, a revamped ...

First launched way back in 1984 the iconic Korg RK-100 remote keyboard brought a new and innovative way to play the keyboard to the music scene. Now 30 years later Korg is re-launching the iconic ...

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 ...

All the best retro-1980s chiptune acts should possess a keytar. It’s the Law, or something. [Theremin Hero] has reminded us of this with a new video we’ve shown below featuring an instrument he had a ...

[Jeri] built this really cool C64 bass Keytar from a commodore64 and a cheap bass guitar. She’s using an FPGA to do the string detection and the key scanning, it then sends everything to the original ...

Let the doubts be put to rest once and for all: Stevie Wonder can still make love to a keytar. After opening his night-ending Austin City Limits Festival set with a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “How Sweet ...