Abstract
Japanese company Yamaha Cooperation debuted “Electone”, as known as ”electronic organ”, in 1959, over half a century. Today, people learning Electone are all over the world, especially in Asia. From 1990s to the beginning of 2000s, Taiwan experienced a booming trend of learning Electone in Yamaha. There were masses of people learning and purchasing Electone, competitions (Electone Festival) and concerts for Electone were also prospering in Taiwan. The researcher in this article also started learning Electone at that time, it was an opening for the researcher to become enthusiastic about music and finally decided to have music as career. Taiwan is far from the booming period of Electone now, but due to the researcher’s own interest in Electone, and because there are still many young students learning Electone today in Taiwan, so the researcher tries to combine personal experience with other Taiwanese Electone professionals’ opinions, then giving some advices to Electone students who have the goal of becoming professional musician. The researcher uses qualitative research to do the coding process after interviewing 8 Taiwanese Electone professionals, dividing musical career into 3 parts: “Development”, “Blossom” and ”Professional”. In each parts, there are some key factors of being success in future. There are 5 conclusions in the end of the research: (1)Electone students are suggested to learn piano at the same time; (2)Professional Electone players are suggested to develop some “digital music” skills; (3)Electone players should be progressing as Electone is also progressing on and on; (4)Electone itself are better be positioned as a music education tool in current musical environment; (5)Electone players in music industry should be positioned in many kinds, not single.