Yamaha SHS-10

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Yamaha SHS-10 by Yamaha
Synthesis type:		Frequency modulation
Polyphony:		6 voices
Oscillators:		2 operators
Multitimbral:		4
VCF:		none
VCA:		1
LFO:		none
Keyboard:		32 mini-keys
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External control:		MIDI (out only)
Memory:		25 patches
Produced:		1980s

The Yamaha SHS-10 is a keytar (a musical keyboard that can be held like a guitar) manufactured by Yamaha and released in the late 1980s.

It has a small-sized keyboard with 32 minikeys and a pitch-bend wheel, an internal phase modulation (usually referred to as FM) synthesizer offering 25 different voices with 6-note polyphony, two operators, and a very basic chord sequencer. It also has a loudspeaker. The features suggest the keytar might have been based around a single Yamaha YM3812 circuit, used in percussion mode.

It supports MIDI, having a MIDI Out connector which allows the keyboard to control external MIDI equipment. It does not have a MIDI In connector.

It was manufactured in three colors: silver, red and black.

Its demo is an arrangement of Wham!'s hit "Last Christmas."