List of keytars

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Main article: Keytar

A Keytar is a keyboard or synthesizer hung around the neck and shoulders, similar to a guitar.

Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess dueling with guitarist John Petrucci in Buenos Aires (2008). Rudess exhibits his Zen Riffer keytar

• Casio AZ-1
• Davis Clavitar
• Davis Clavitron
• Formanta Mini
• Junost 21
• Korg Poly-800
• Korg Poly-800 MkII
• Korg RK-100
• Lag LeKey
• Lync LN-1000
• Lync LN-4
• Lync LN-4 (Jan Hammer Signature Series)
• Moog Liberation
• PMS Syntar
• Powell Probe (Roger Powell keytar by Royalex)
• Roland AX-1
• Roland AX-7
• Roland AXIS
• Roland SH-101
• Royalex (Jan Hammer's first keytar during the 70s)
• Sequential Circuits Remote Prophet
• Siel DK70
• Tyco HotKeyz
• Yamaha CS01
• Yamaha CS01II
• Yamaha KX-1
• Yamaha KX-5
• Yamaha SHS-10
• Yamaha SHS-200
• Yamaha DX-100

[edit] Custom/rare keytars

• Delmar Brown Illuminator
• Jean Michel Jarre's custom KX5, two versions: Houston and Docklands Concerts
• Lag Insecte made for Jean Michel Jarre
• Lag Mad Max made for Jean Michel Jarre
• Lag Circulaire made for Jean Michel Jarre
• Remote for Jean Michel Jarre's studio by Lag
• Riday T91
• Selfmade keytar by Le Orme keyboard player Michelle Bon called Alien Guitar Simulator
• Vadim Pruzhanov of DragonForce and Henrik Klingenberg of Sonata Arctica both use a custom Roland AX-7
• Zen Riffer, used most notably by Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater.