| Electric pianos should not be confused with the | | | | piano were created and launched on the market. |
| electronic piano, as the two are different things. An | | | | One of the first was the Neo Bechstein electric grand |
| Electric piano happens to be one type of musical | | | | piano that was manufactured in 1929. Vivi Tone Clavier |
| instrument that is powered by electricity. It was from | | | | created by Lloyd Loar was perhaps the earliest of the |
| the late sixties that the popularity of these pianos | | | | string less models. |
| witnessed a surge and that popularity reached its | | | | These kinds of electric pianos were regularly |
| heydays in the seventies, when people went crazy | | | | manufactured until the middle of the eighties and then |
| about these instruments. | | | | were gradually discontinued. But an announcement for |
| All those heavy, old, vintage and imposing looking un | | | | revival of the electric piano has been declared by |
| amplified stage pianos were replaced by the electric | | | | Rhodes in 2008. |
| piano and the latter was mainly designed and targeted | | | | Some of the popular examples of piano manufacturing |
| for either school use or home use. Many of these | | | | companies who were famous for creation of these |
| electric pianos were used in school piano labs and | | | | electro acoustic pianos were Yamaha, Wurlitzer, |
| college piano labs where several students who use | | | | Rhodes etc and a few popular electric piano models |
| headphones could learn playing the piano | | | | were Yamaha CP 70 electric grand piano, Wurlitzer |
| simultaneously. | | | | EP 200 A, Hohner Cembalet, Electra piano, Pianet, |
| A synthesizer is an electronic instrument. But an | | | | Clavinet, Rhodes piano. |
| electric piano is different, it is electro mechanical. The | | | | A few famous musical pieces that were played on |
| sounds are produced mechanically and there are pick | | | | electric piano were Just the Way You Are by Billy |
| ups, which convert sounds into electronic signals. It was | | | | Joel, Little Jeannie, Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest |
| in the late twenties that the earliest versions of electric | | | | Word, Daniel by Elton John etc. |