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A keyboardist is a musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
 who plays keyboard instrument
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
s. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 or organists
Organ (music)

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
. 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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A keyboardist is a musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
 who plays keyboard instrument
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
s. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 or organists
Organ (music)

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
. 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 piano
    Electric piano

    An electric piano is an electric musical instrument. The popularity of the electric piano began to grow in the late 1960s, reaching its greatest height during the 1970s....
    s such as the Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric piano
    Wurlitzer electric piano

    The Wurlitzer electric piano was one of a series of electric piano manufactured and marketed by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, Corinth, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States and North Tonawanda, New York, NY....
  • electronic piano
    Electronic piano

    An electronic piano is a keyboard instrument designed to simulate the timbre of a piano using analog circuitry.Electronic Piano was also the trade name used for Wurlitzer's popular line of electric pianos, which were produced from the 1950s to the 1980s, although this was not actually what is now commonly known as an electronic pian...
    s such as the Roland
    Roland Corporation

    is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ?33 million in capital....
     Digital Piano
  • Hammond
    Hammond organ

    The Hammond organ is an electronic organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to Church as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, Rock and r...
     and other electric organ
    Electronic organ

    An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument originally designed to imitate the sound of a pipe organ. It has developed today into two forms of the instrument, the digital church organ that imitates a pipe organ for classical music and use in churches, and the Hammond organ-style instrument used in more popular music genres....
     such as the Farfisa
    Farfisa

    Farfisa is a manufacturer of electronics based in Italy. The Farfisa brand name is commonly associated with a series of compact electronic organ, and later, a series of multi-timbral synthesizer....
     and Vox Continental
    Vox Continental

    The Vox Continental is a transistor-based combo organ that was introduced in 1962. Known for its thin, bright, reedy sound, the "Connie," as it was affectionately known, was designed to be used by touring musicians....
  • analog synthesizer
    Analog synthesizer

    An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog electronics and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically....
    s such as Moog
    Moog synthesizer

    Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for analog and digital music synthesisers....
     and ARP
    ARP Instruments, Inc.

    ARP Instruments, Inc. was an early electronic music company founded by Alan Robert Pearlman. Best known for its line of synthesizers that emerged in the early 1970s, ARP closed its doors in 1981 for financial reasons....
     synthesizers
  • digital electronic keyboard
    Electronic keyboard

    An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is a type of keyboard instrument. Its sound is generated or amplified by one or more electronic devices....
    s such as those produced today by Roland
    Roland Corporation

    is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ?33 million in capital....
    , Yamaha, Kurzweil
    Kurzweil Music Systems

    Kurzweil Music Systems is a company that produces electronic musical instruments for professionals and home users. Founded in 1982 by Raymond Kurzweil, a developer of Optical character recognition for the blindness, the company made use of many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines and adapted them to musical purposes....
     and Korg
    Korg

    is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronics musical instruments and electronic tuners. The company is one of the most widely used and respected names in professional music worldwide....
  • sampler
    Sampler (musical instrument)

    A sampler is an electronic musical instrument closely related to a synthesizer. Instead of generating sounds from scratch, however, a sampler starts with multiple recordings of different sounds added by the user, and then plays each back based on how the instrument is configured....
    s
  • mellotron
    Mellotron

    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphony keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's first sampling keyboard....
  • clavinet
    Clavinet

    Not to be confused with clarinetA Clavinet is an electrophone keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar....
  • pianet
    Pianet

    The Pianet was a series of electric pianos built by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany from the 1950s to the 1970s. The designer of the early Pianet models was Ernst Zacharias, basing the mechanism closely on a 1920s design by Lloyd Loar....
  • piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
     (but see Pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
     for a list of famous pianists)
  • harpsichord
    Harpsichord

    A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each Key is pressed....
  • reed organ
    Reed organ

    A reed organ, also called parlor organ, pump organ, cabinet organ, cottage organ, is an organ that generates its sounds using free metal reed ....
  • celesta
    Celesta

    The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard instrument. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box ....
  • clavichord
    Clavichord

    The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval music, through the Renaissance music, Baroque music and Classical music era eras....
  • pipe organ
    Pipe organ

    The pipe organ is a keyboard musical instrument that produces sound by venting mechanically compressed air through resonant Organ pipe. Each pipe produces sound at one fixed pitch, so they are provided in sets or "ranks" with one pipe or more per note, each rank having a common timbre and loudness throughout....
  • harmonium
    Harmonium

    A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ or pipe organ. Sound is produced by air, supplied by foot-operated or hand-operated bellows, being blown through sets of Free reed aerophone, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion....
  • keytar
    Keytar

    A keytar is a relatively lightweight Electronic keyboard or synthesizer that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is supported by a guitar strap....


See also

  • Pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Organist
    Organist

    An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ . An organist may play organ repertoire, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist....
  • List of Hammond organ players
    List of Hammond organ players

    This is a list of notable Hammond organ players, both solo performers and members of ensembles. Only add names here if the person has their own article on Wikipedia, please....
  • List of harpsichordists
    List of harpsichordists

    Musicians who play the harpsichord are known as harpsichordists. This list includes post nineteenth-century harpsichordists. Notable earlier harpsichordists mostly appear on the list of Baroque composers....
  • Classical pianists (recorded)
    Classical pianists (recorded)

    This is a list of pianists of whom recordings survive who play or played European classical music. Since the number of people who have played the piano is probably in the millions, most of whom are not notable, the list is confined to those who have left some recorded legacy....


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