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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments. In common language, it is mostly...
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Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Founder of the industrial rock musical project known as Nine Inch Nails, he was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds,...
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- 1988
Tom Constanten
Tom Constanten (born March 19, 1944 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the Grateful Dead from 1968–1970.
Known as T.C., he studied music at University of California, Berkeley, where he met Phil Lesh....
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Period (start):
- 1968
Period (end):
- Jan 1970
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin on 3 January 1946) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist musician.
Best known as the bassist, keyboardist, and mandolin player for English rock band Led Zeppelin,...
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- 1968
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Period (end):
- 1980
Chris Vrenna
Tweaker is an American alternative rock collaboration founded by Chris Vrenna in the late 1990s. Tweaker's musical style incorporates synthpop, progressive rock, modern jazz and electronica genres, and is characterized by a generally melancholy and...
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Period (start):
- 1988
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- 1989
The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge (or simply just Edge), is a musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Irish rock band U2. His distinctive...
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Period (start):
- 1976
Eddie Jobson
Edwin "Eddie" Jobson (born 28 April 1955) is an English keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers. He has been a member of several progressive rock bands, including Curved Air, Roxy Music, 801, U.K., and Jethro Tull. He was also...
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Period (start):
- Jun 1980
Period (end):
- May 1981
Chuck Leavell
Chuck Leavell (born Charles Alfred Leavell, April 28, 1952) is an American pianist and keyboardist, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently...
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Period (start):
- 1982
Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues musician from Houston, Texas raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy Award-winning career as a solo artist,...
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Period (start):
- 1973
Period (end):
- 1977
Patrick Moraz
Patrick Philippe Moraz (born June 24, 1948 in Villars-Ste-Croix, Morges, Switzerland) is a progressive rock keyboard player. He is best known as the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Yes, from 1974 to 1976, and the Moody Blues from 1978 to...
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Period (start):
- 1978
Period (end):
- 1991
Dee Palmer
Dee Palmer (born David Palmer, 2 July 1937, London) is a English arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock group Jethro Tull. Palmer is a transsexual woman who was known as David Palmer for many years, including her...
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Period (start):
- Oct 1976
Period (end):
- Jun 1980
Charlie Clouser
Charles Alexander "Charlie" Clouser (born June 28, 1963) is an American musician whose activities include playing keyboard, synth, theremin, and drums. He is known for his abilities in music programming, engineering, mixing, and remixing. He was a...
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Period (start):
- 1994
Period (end):
- 2000
Brent Mydland
Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years and, despite being often referred to as "the new guy", he was with the band for a...
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Period (start):
- 1979
Period (end):
- Jul 1990
David Bryan
David Bryan (born David Bryan Rashbaum, February 7, 1962, Edison, New Jersey) is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song "In These Arms", one of a...
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Period (start):
- 1983
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Mike Pinder
Michael Thomas "Mike" Pinder (born 27 December 1941, Erdington, Birmingham, England) is an English rock musician, who established his reputation with the Moody Blues during the height of their success in the 1960s and 1970s. He is especially noted...
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Period (start):
- 1964
Period (end):
- 1979
John Evan
John Evan (born John Spencer Evans, 28 March 1948, Blackpool, Lancashire) played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970, to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London.
He changed his name when his first band, The Blades, changed their...
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Period (start):
- Apr 1970
Period (end):
- Jun 1980
Peter-John Vettese
Peter-John Vettese (born in Scotland), also known as Peter Vettese, is a British keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.
Vettese began his music studies with piano lessons at the age of 4. At 9, he began playing in public with his...
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Period (start):
- Jun 1981
Period (end):
- 1985
Vince Welnick
Vince Welnick (February 21, 1951–June 2, 2006) was an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the band The Tubes during the 1970s and 1980s and with the Grateful Dead in the 1990s.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Welnick started playing...
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Period (start):
- 1990
Period (end):
- 1995
Eric Stefani
Eric Matthew Stefani (born June 17, 1967) is an American pop musician, former Simpsons animator, and Grammy-nominated composer and writer.
Stefani attended Loara High School in Anaheim, California. He worked at a Dairy Queen with his sister Gwen and...
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Period (start):
- Dec 1986
Period (end):
- 1994
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Ronald C. "Pigpen" McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973) was a founding member of the band the Grateful Dead. His musical contributions to the Grateful Dead included vocals, Hammond organ, harmonica, percussion, and occasionally guitar. He...
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Period (start):
- 1965
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Period (end):
- Jun 17, 1972
Keith Godchaux
Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.
Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California. He met and married Donna Jean...
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Period (start):
- 1971
Period (end):
- 1979
Peter Griesar
Peter Griesar (born 1969) played in the Dave Matthews Band from August 1990 to March 1993, playing keyboards, harmonica and providing backup vocals. He grew up in Westchester County, New York and moved to Charlottesville, Virginia to attend the...
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Period (start):
- Aug 1990
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Period (end):
- Mar 23, 1993
Carlos Dengler
Carlos Dengler (born April 23, 1974), previously known as Carlos D., is an American musician best known as the bassist for the band Interpol.
Carlos Andres Dengler was born and raised in Queens. He is of Colombian and German descent. Guitarist...
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Period (start):
- 1998
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Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald (born 25 June 1946, in Osterley, Middlesex) is an English multi-instrumental musician, best known as a founding member of progressive rock group King Crimson, formed in 1969, and of the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976. He is well-known...
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Period (start):
- 1976
Period (end):
- 1980
Kathryn Calder
Kathryn Calder is a Canadian indie rock musician, who is a member of the bands Immaculate Machine and The New Pornographers. She plays keyboard and sings in both bands. Many of the parts she sings live with The New Pornographers are as a replacement...
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Daniel Mÿhr
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Jay Fienberg
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Andrew Giddings
Andrew 'Andy' Giddings (born July 10, 1963 in Pembury, Kent) is an English keyboardist and was a member of Jethro Tull from 1991 to 2007.
Andrew had two rabbits when he was four years old. He says that he never noticed them very much until the day...
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Period (start):
- 1991
Don Airey
Don Airey (born 21 June 1948 in Sunderland, England) has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord. He has had a long and productive career, playing with such acts as Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest,...
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Period (start):
- 1987
Period (end):
- 1987
Richard Wright
Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was an English pianist, keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter, best known for his career with Pink Floyd. Wright's richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a...
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Period (start):
- 1964
Pete Solley
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Roger O'Donnell
Roger O'Donnell (born 29 October 1955) is an English keyboardist best known for his work with The Cure. O'Donnell has also performed in the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson Twins and Berlin, as well as an active solo career.
O'Donnell was born into a...
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Gary Versace
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Rostam Batmanglij
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Edward Correa
Played with SA SANCTUARY from 1997-2001. Rejoined the band in January 2009 after settling up with his "personal demons", and is currently touring with the band.
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Period (start):
- 1997
Period (end):
- 2000
Danny Federici
Daniel Paul "Danny" Federici (January 23, 1950 – April 17, 2008) was an American musician, most known as the longtime organ, glockenspiel and accordion player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
Federici started to play accordion when he was...
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Period (start):
- Oct 1972
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- Nov 21, 2007
David Sancious
David Sancious (born November 30, 1953 in Asbury Park, New Jersey) is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, The E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the 1992...
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Period (start):
- Oct 1972
Period (end):
- Aug 1974
Jessica Graves
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Rob Petersen
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Alessandro Cortini
Alessandro Cortini (born May 24, 1976) is an Italian musician best known for touring and recording with the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from 2004 to 2008. Cortini is also the frontman for the Los Angeles based electronic...
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Period (start):
- 2005
Lou Hayter
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