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I cannot take credit for being the first keytar player... However, I can take credit for the first one to set his keytar on fire. Moog Music made me a prototype to the Liberation which had a compartment on the back for smoke bombs. At a certain point in my keytar solo, I had the stage manager kneel behind me and light the wick of a smoke bomb which then gave the illusion that the keyboard was smoking. Well, one time it actually caught on fire when the whole back of the keyboard started flaming at which point I was forced to throw the thing off of me. Fortunately, I was not burned. I also got electrocuted in Japan when our lighting director decided to string the keytar with flashing Christmas lights. He would turn them on when I went running through the audience. The effect was great except when I took off the thing to set it back on the stage, I touched something that shot 110 volts through my body…once again, I was forced to throw it off of me!

Needless to say, I no longer desire to use a keytar.

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I own a Roland AX-1, and with wireless MIDI transmitters and portable Yamaha QY100, you can go anywhere with this thing. I looked at the AX-7's, but I didn't get in early enough before they climbed to ridiculous prices that were above the original retail price.

I think the keytar has a ton of possibilities, but the optimum design was never created before it people gave up on it. If you could create a keytar with the right and left hand flip-flopped like a guitar, you could acheive a lot more playing with a lot more comfort.]]>Jan 16th 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/music-thing-qwerty-keytars/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/music-thing-qwerty-keytars/Apr 18th 2007 3:54PM