A company based in Recanati, Italy, which manufactures both keyboard instruments, and keyboard and other mechanisms for use in synths and keyboard instruments. Fatar makes several lines of both synth weighted and piano weighted keyboard mechanisms which it sells to other synth and keyboard instrument manufacturers; some use wood keys and some plastic. Various spans, key depths, weighting mechanisms, and keytop finishes are available. A particular unusual product is a mechanism for stacking keyboards to produce multi-manual consoles for pipe organs. Fatar also produces pitch wheel and similar mechanisms often used as performance controls in synths. The company has a reputation for producing high-quality keyboard mechanisms.