Instrument: Synthesizer / Keyboard

Synthesizers are the most modest musical instruments you can imagine. They look like small and rather mundane electronic pianos, but they’re actually much more than that. If you can play a synthesizer, you can play not just any instrument in the orchestra but any instrument you could possibly imagine. Synthesizers have radically changed popular music since they were first widely used in the early 1970s; hardly a pop record is made these days without featuring an electronic keyboard of some kind.

Synthesizers were initially viewed as avant-garde, valued by the 1960s psychedelic and counter-cultural scenes but with little commercial potential. Switched-On Bach (1968), a bestselling album of Bach compositions arranged for synthesizer by Wendy Carlos, took synthesizers to the mainstream. They were adopted by electronic acts and pop and rock groups in the 1960s and 1970s, and widely used in 1980s rock. Sampling, introduced with the Fairlight synthesizer in 1979, has influenced all genres of music and had a major influence on the development of electronic and hip-hop music. Today, the synthesizer is used in nearly every genre of music, and is considered one of the most important instruments in the music industry.

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