Crossword clues for keyboardist
keyboardist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a musician who plays the keyboard
WordNet
n. a musician who plays a keyboard instrument
Wikipedia
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them. These keyboards include:
- electric pianos such as the Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric piano
- electronic pianos such as the Roland Digital Piano
- Hammond and other electric organs such as the Farfisa and Vox Continental
- analog synthesizers such as Moog, ARP, and units produced by a variety of other manufacturers such as Alesis.
- Analog modeling synthesizers produced by such companies as Alesis, and Novation
- digital keyboard workstations such as those produced today by Roland, Yamaha, Kurzweil and Korg
- samplers
- mellotron
- clavinet
- continuum
- melodica
- pianet
- piano (but see Pianist for a list of famous pianists)
- harpsichord
- reed organ
- celesta
- clavichord
- pipe organ
- harmonium
- keytar
- kimophone (keytar horn invented by Kimo Lobo)
Usage examples of "keyboardist".
She herself was maintaining her silk-blouse-and-pink-nails persona, just as she had for several other keyboardist auditions, but Devi did not appear to notice such superficialities.
Dark Power, Christa had been confronted with a keyboardist who knew a little technique, a little feeling, and a little synthesizer theory.
The keyboardist suddenly looked stricken, as though she realized how thoroughly she had revealed herself.
The key instrument perhaps was the various permutations of synthesizer, organ and electronic piano, allowing the keyboardist to launch his fingers at the flick of switch into arpeggios of different sound.
Well, Boris was already here because he is supposed to practise his violin during G and T, but the other band members - Felix, the drummer with the goatee, tall Paul the keyboardist and Trevor the guitar-player - all cut class to set up in the G and T classroom and play me a song Michael wrote just for me.
The key instruments were the various permutations of synthesizer, organ and electronic piano, allowing the keyboardist to launch his fingers at the flick of switch, into arpeggios of different sound.
The keyboardist smiled as well, showing another set of bad teeth, many missing.
There were no religious icons, family shots, or photos on his corkboard, except for a Polaroid, taken from an evidence file, of a local go-go keyboardist and murder suspect fucking a young female from behind, smiling as he stared into the camera.
When the bridge came to an end the drummer and keyboardist backed down, settling their pitch.
I can tell, opted to eschew the dress code by wearing shorts, flip - flops, and, in the case of Kurt, the keyboardist, no shirt.
Woody Hannaford, keyboardist extraordinaire and the strong silent type.
Cole and shrugged his shoulders, having no idea what the keyboardist was referring to.
I can tell, opted to eschew the dress code by wearing shorts, flip-flops, and, in the case of Kurt, the keyboardist, no shirt.
He loped off to the keyboardist and whispered in his ear, and then the keyboardist nodded and conferred with the two teenage guitarists.
She herself was maintaining her silk-blouse-and-pink-nails persona, just as she had for several other keyboardist auditions, but Devi did not appear to notice such superficialities.