Keyboard player is a term used for a musician who plays multiple instruments that have piano-style keyboards. In the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists (very few musicians played older keyboard instruments such as harpsichord or clavichord). Since the mid 1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a new term for a person who plays them. These keyboards include:
Sweden's TREASURE LAND Seeks New KeyboardPlayer - Feb. 1, 2007
TREASURE LAND, the Swedish progressive metal band who released two highly acclaimed CDs in 1997 and 1998, is seeking a new keyboardplayer.
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It was used especially in the 18th century and earlier in Germany to refer indiscriminately to the harpsichord, clavichord, and pipe organ.
Among the earliest keyboard instruments are the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord.
The earliest fully electronic keyboard instruments were electronic organs that used oscillators and frequency dividers, together with a network of filters, to produce waveforms.
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