Prince held a patent on the design of a custom keytar, known as the Purpleaxxe. Credit: Mashable composite/Getty Images Prince, who died suddenly on Thursday, was an unparalleled musical artist ...

Do any of you stay awake at night agonizing over how the keytar could get even cooler? The 80s are over, so we know none of us do. Yet here we are, [James Cochrane] has gone out and turned a HP ...

This is an interesting fusion between traditional guitar and 80’s phenomenon, the keytar. Each string is ... His original design involved a lot of custom circuitry but he’s evolved the project ...