Patent ID: 8426719

Claim:
A keytar, comprising: a keyboard body having a front face, left side, right side and rear face; a piano-style keyboard on the front face of the keyboard body having a plurality of keys; a neck extending from one of the right side and the left side of the keyboard body; a plurality of drum pads on the front face of the keyboard body; a microprocessor electrically connected to the plurality of drum pads, the microprocessor configured and arranged to scan the state of each of the plurality of drum pads and generate a MIDI note signal corresponding to the state each of the plurality of drum pads; and an accelerometer electrically connected to the microprocessor, the accelerometer configured and arranged to detect movement of the keyboard body and generate a signal corresponding thereto, the microprocessor configured and arranged to generate a MIDI continuous control signal corresponding to the signal generated by the accelerometer.