Keyboardist
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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:
- electric pianos such as the Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric piano
- electronic pianos such as the Roland Digital Piano
- Hammond organ
- analog synthesizers such as Moog synthesizer and Arp synthesizers
- digital synthesizers 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 (see Harpsichordist)
- celeste
- clavichord
- pipe organ
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Notable electronic keyboardists
Note: while the term 'keyboardist' can cover a wide variety of instruments both acoustic and electronic, the following musicians are mostly known as electronic keyboardists, although they may also play piano or other acoustic keyboards.
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Rock, Pop, Funk and Electronica
- Rod Argent (Argent, The Zombies)
- Nick Baines (Kaiser Chiefs)
- Perry Bamonte
- Karl Bartos
- Dennis DeYoung (Styx)
- Tony Banks (Genesis)
- Ronnie Caldwell
- Jesse Carmichael (Maroon 5)
- Vince Clarke (Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo)
- Mike Smith (The Dave Clark Five)
- Geoff Downes (Asia, The Buggles, Yes)
- Keith Emerson
- Wolfgang Flür and Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk)
- Franny Griffiths ( Space)
- Ian Gibbons (The Kinks)
- Richard Gibbs (Oingo Boingo)
- Gillian Gilbert (New Order)
- Nicolas Godin (Air)
- Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher (Depeche Mode)
- Eamon Hamilton (British Sea Power)
- Matthieu Hartley
- Bob Jackson (Badfinger, The Fortunes)
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- Booker T. Jones
- Robert Lamm (Chicago)
- Geddy Lee (Rush)
- Jon Lord (Deep Purple)
- Chris Lowe (Pet Shop Boys)
- Arthur Mack (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
- Leslie Maguire (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
- Manfred Mann
- Ray Manzarek (The Doors)
- Linda McCartney
- Tim McGowan
- Ian McLagan (The Faces)
- Moby
- Kevin Moore and Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater)
- Gary Numan
- Roger O'Donnell
- Billy Preston (solo artist and session player, noted for his work on The Beatles' Let It Be)
- Alan Price (The Animals)
- Dizzy Reed (Guns N' Roses)
- Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)
- Gregg Rolie (Santana, Journey)
- Sister Bliss (Faithless)
- Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order, Electronic)
- Laurence Tolhurst (The Cure)
- Vangelis
- Rick Wakeman
- Alan Wilder
- Stevie Wonder
- Bernie Worrell
- Richard Wright (Pink Floyd)
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Jazz
Generally speaking, in jazz music, electronic keyboard players are very often also pianists.
- Chick Corea
- Joey DeFrancesco
- Eumir Deodato (Deodato)
- Herbie Hancock
- Keith Jarrett
- John Medeski
- Jimmy Smith
- Josef Zawinul (Weather Report)
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Classical
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See also
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