Keytar
A keytar is a musical instrument. It is shaped and held like a guitar, but has keys like a keyboard. Keytars are lightweight keyboards that have a strap that is put around the neck and shoulders. The instrument has a keyboard for playing musical notes and sounds. The earliest keytars were created around the 1970's. This picture of a keytar is one of the most popular keytars. Most popular keytars are seen with a red guitar neck and played in 1980 movies. first appeared in a magazine in 1980.
Keytar Media
Herbie Hancock's Yamaha KX1 MIDI controller on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Performance Music Systems Syntar and its inventor, George Mattson. The Syntar was the earliest keytar synthesizer product exhibited at the 1979 Atlanta NAMM Expo.
A woman performing with a keytar in South Korea, 2013