The keytar's phoenix-like rise is surely set to continue over the coming months, and we're celebrating its return with a set of classic and contemporary clips featuring some of its finest exponents.

Alesis has unveiled the world's first USB/MIDI keytar - the Vortex - with a built-in accelerometer, 37 pressure sensitive keys and a host of buttons, sliders and controls.

The Keytar is the single most obnoxious instrument in modern music. It was the worst part of a keyboard (plastic and monophonic), married to the even worse part of a guitar (no guitar strings, no ...

Do any of you stay awake at night agonizing over how the keytar could get even cooler? The 80s are over, so we know none of us do. Yet here we are, [James Cochrane] has gone out and turned a HP Sca… ...