Electric piano - Definition and Overview

An electric piano (e-piano) is an electric musical instrument of the 1960s or 1970s, which was built to replace a (heavy) piano on stage.

Compare: Digital piano

• Examples:
  • Fender Rhodes (Mark I, Mark II, Mark III)
  • Hohner Cembalet, Clavinet, Pianet, Electra Piano
  • Wurlitzer Electric Piano 200A

• Popular Songs with electric pianos:
  • Fender Rhodes:
    • Herbie Hancock: "Chameleon"
    • Billy Joel: "Just The Way You Are"
    • Stevie Wonder: "You Are the Sunshine Of My Life"
    • The Doors: "Riders On The Storm"
  • Hohner Clavinet:
    • Commodores: "Machine Gun", "Young Girls Are My Weakness"
    • Foreigner: "Urgent"
    • Stevie Wonder: "Superstition"
    • The Band: "Up On Cripple Creek", "The Shape I'm In"
  • Hohner Electra Piano:
    • Led Zeppelin: "Stairway To Heaven", "Down By the Seaside", "No Quarter", "Misty Mountain Hop"
  • Hohner Pianet (N):
    • Beatles: "The Night Before", "You Like Me Too Much", "I am the Walrus"
    • The Guess Who: "These Eyes"
    • Herman's Hermits: "I'm Into Something Good"
    • The Zombies: "She's Not There"
  • Wurlitzer Electric Piano 200 A
    • Queen: "You're my best friend"
    • Supertramp: "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer", "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger" , "Lady" , "Oh Darling" , "You Started Laughing" , "Poor Boy"
    • Steely Dan: "Do It Again", "Dirty Work", "Your Gold Teeth", "Everyone's Gone To The Movies", "Jack of Speed", "Two Against Nature", "Slang of Ages" , "Pretzel Logic"
    • Little Feat: "Fat Man in the Bathtub (live)", "Day or Night", "One Love Stand", "Mercernary Terrotory", "Hoy Hoy"
    • Ray Charles: "What'd I Say"