Electric grand piano

In the 1970s, hammered-string electric pianos returned to commercial production, beginning with Yamaha's CP-70 and CP-80, followed by models by Kawai Musical Instruments and Helpinstill.

[6] Lead singer Tom Chaplin also used a Yamaha CP-60, a smaller and upright variant of the CP-70, during the Under The Iron Sea era of the band.

Swedish soloartist Jack L. Stroem and the band Tokyo Keys also use the CP-70 (with guitar effects pedals and amplifiers) as an integral component of its sound.

Michael Curtes of Polite Sleeper plays a CP-70B as his primary keyboard in live performances.

Other notable users of the Yamaha CP series pianos include Billy Joel ("My Life", "All for Leyna", "I Don't Want to Be Alone", "Sleeping with the Television On", "Pressure", "Surprises"); Joe Zawinul, Steve Hillier of Dubstar, who wrote all three of the band's albums for EMI on his CP-70B; Guilherme Arantes; Split Enz keyboard player Eddie Rayner, who played a CP-80 regularly throughout the group's most successful period in the early-mid 1980s; Vangelis; George Duke; Benny Andersson of ABBA; Mick MacNeil of Simple Minds; D'Angelo;[7] the Edge of U2; Prince; Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Keith Godchaux and Brent Mydland of the Grateful Dead; Hall & Oates ("Kiss on My List", "Private Eyes", "Did It in a Minute"); Rainbow ("Since You Been Gone"); Roxy Music ("Oh Yeah"); Toto ("Hold the Line"); Foreigner ("Waiting for a Girl Like You"); Kerry Livgren of Kansas ("Lonely Wind"); Alicia Keys ("Girl on Fire") and Aaron Morgan of Seabird.

Inside view of a Yamaha CP-70
Tim Rice-Oxley of Keane playing a Yamaha CP-70 on stage