That’s because so many acts used the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. It came with a ton of presets, making it unnecessary to spend hours programming sounds and worrying if you could get the exact same sound time after time. It’s estimated that one preset—“Electric Piano 1”—appeared on over 60% of all the albums released in 1986. More @Wikipedia
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