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Musical keyboard

Index Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. [1]

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  1. 74 relations: Accordion, Adriaan Fokker, Archicembalo, Arpeggio, Bandoneon, Bösendorfer, C (musical note), C major, Carillon, C♯ (musical note), Chord (music), Chromatic button accordion, Clavichord, Clavinet, Counterpoint, Digital piano, Electric piano, Electronic circuit, Electronic keyboard, Enharmonic keyboard, Flat (music), Garmon, Glockenspiel, Gregorian chant, Hammond organ, Harpsichord, Isomorphic keyboard, Ivory, Jankó keyboard, Julián Carrillo, Keyboard instrument, Keyboard matrix circuit, Keytar, Korg Poly-800, Leopold Godowsky, Manual (music), Marimba, Maurice Ravel, Meantone temperament, Melody, Microtone (music), Music of Azerbaijan, Musical instrument, Octave, Pauline Oliveros, Pedal keyboard, Pentatonic scale, Percussion mallet, Piano, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel), ... Expand index (24 more) »

  2. Electric and electronic keyboard instruments
  3. Human–machine interaction

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). Musical keyboard and Accordion are keyboard instruments.

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Adriaan Fokker

Adriaan Daniël Fokker (17 August 1887 – 24 September 1972) was a Dutch physicist.

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Archicembalo

The archicembalo (or arcicembalo) was a musical instrument described by Nicola Vicentino in 1555. Musical keyboard and archicembalo are keyboard instruments.

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Arpeggio

An arpeggio is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order.

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Bandoneon

The bandoneon (bandoneón) or bandonion is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay.

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Bösendorfer

Bösendorfer (L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH) is an Austrian piano manufacturer and, since 2008, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation.

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C (musical note)

C or Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (G, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.

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C major

C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common keys used in music.

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Carillon

A carillon is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. Musical keyboard and carillon are keyboard instruments.

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C♯ (musical note)

C (C-sharp) is a musical note lying a chromatic semitone above C and a diatonic semitone below D; it is the second semitone of the solfège.

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Chord (music)

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.

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Chromatic button accordion

A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged chromatically.

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Clavichord

The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Musical keyboard and clavichord are keyboard instruments.

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Clavinet

The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. Musical keyboard and Clavinet are electric and electronic keyboard instruments.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is a method of composition in which two or more musical lines (or voices) are simultaneously played which are harmonically correlated yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour.

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Digital piano

A digital piano is a type of electronic keyboard instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to the traditional acoustic piano, both in how it feels to play and in the sound it produces. Musical keyboard and digital piano are electric and electronic keyboard instruments.

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Electric piano

An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into electrical signals by pickups (either magnetic, electrostatic, or piezoelectric).

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Electronic circuit

An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow.

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Electronic keyboard

An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. Musical keyboard and electronic keyboard are electric and electronic keyboard instruments and keyboard instruments.

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Enharmonic keyboard

An enharmonic keyboard is a musical keyboard, where enharmonically equivalent notes do not have identical pitches.

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Flat (music)

In music, flat means lower in pitch.

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Garmon

The garmon (p, from r, cognate of English harmonica), commonly called garmoshka, is a kind of Russian button accordion, a free-reed wind instrument.

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Glockenspiel

The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.

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Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Musical keyboard and Hammond organ are electric and electronic keyboard instruments.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Musical keyboard and harpsichord are keyboard instruments.

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Isomorphic keyboard

An isomorphic keyboard is a musical input device consisting of a two-dimensional grid of note-controlling elements (such as buttons or keys) on which any given sequence and/or combination of musical intervals has the "same shape" on the keyboard wherever it occurs – within a key, across keys, across octaves, and across tunings.

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.

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Jankó keyboard

The Jankó keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Jankó, a Hungarian pianist and engineer, in 1882.

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Julián Carrillo

Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer,Camp, Roderic Ai (1995).

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. Musical keyboard and keyboard instrument are keyboard instruments.

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Keyboard matrix circuit

A keyboard matrix circuit is a design used in most electronic musical keyboards and computer keyboards in which the key switches are connected by a grid of wires, similar to a diode matrix.

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Keytar

Keytar (a portmanteau of keyboard and guitar) is a keyboard instrument similar to a synthesizer or MIDI controller that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is held. Musical keyboard and Keytar are electric and electronic keyboard instruments and keyboard instruments.

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Korg Poly-800

The Korg Poly-800 is an 8-voice analog synthesizer released by Korg in 1983.

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Leopold Godowsky

Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. (13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a Lithuanian-born American virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher.

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Manual (music)

The word "manual" is used instead of the word "keyboard" when referring to any hand-operated keyboard on a keyboard instrument that has a pedalboard (a keyboard on which notes are played with the feet), such as an organ; or when referring to one of the keyboards on an instrument that has more than one hand-operated keyboard, such as a two- or three-manual harpsichord. Musical keyboard and Manual (music) are keyboard instruments.

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Marimba

The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Meantone temperament

Meantone temperaments are musical temperaments, that is a variety of tuning systems, obtained by narrowing the fifths so that their ratio is slightly less than 3:2 (making them narrower than a perfect fifth), in order to push the thirds closer to pure.

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Microtone (music)

Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".

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Music of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani music (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan musiqisi) is the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani people from Azerbaijan Republic.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.

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Pedal keyboard

A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music. Musical keyboard and pedal keyboard are electric and electronic keyboard instruments, Human–machine interaction and keyboard instruments.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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Percussion mallet

A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings. Musical keyboard and piano are keyboard instruments.

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Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel)

The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G major.

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Piano Concerto No. 4 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.

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Piano key frequencies

This is a list of the fundamental frequencies in hertz (cycles per second) of the keys of a modern 88-key standard or 108-key extended piano in twelve-tone equal temperament, with the 49th key, the fifth A (called A4), tuned to 440 Hz (referred to as A440).

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Musical keyboard and pipe organ are keyboard instruments.

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Printing telegraph

The printing telegraph was invented by Royal Earl House in 1846.

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Pump organ

The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame. Musical keyboard and pump organ are keyboard instruments.

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Radio button

A radio button or option button is a graphical control element that allows the user to choose only one of a predefined set of mutually exclusive options.

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Registration (organ)

Registration is the technique of choosing and combining the stops of a pipe organ in order to produce a particular sound.

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Scale (music)

In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency.

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Scientific pitch notation

Scientific pitch notation (SPN), also known as American standard pitch notation (ASPN) and international pitch notation (IPN), is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.

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Sharp (music)

In music, in English sharp – eqv.

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Short octave

The short octave was a method of assigning notes to keys in early keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, organ), for the purpose of giving the instrument an extended range in the bass range.

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Split sharp

A split sharp is a kind of key found in some early keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ.

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Stuart & Sons

Stuart & Sons is an Australian manufacturer of handcrafted grand pianos.

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Studies on Chopin's Études

The Studies on Chopin's Études are a set of 53 arrangements of Chopin's études by Leopold Godowsky, composed between 1894 and 1914.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Musical keyboard and synthesizer are electric and electronic keyboard instruments and keyboard instruments.

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Tempo

In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.

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Trill (music)

The trill (or shake, as it was known from the 16th until the early 20th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of the trillTaylor, Eric.

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Velocity

Velocity is the speed in combination with the direction of motion of an object.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family.

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Virginals

The virginals is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. Musical keyboard and virginals are keyboard instruments.

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Wolf interval

In music theory, the wolf fifth (sometimes also called Procrustean fifth, or imperfect fifth) is a particularly dissonant musical interval spanning seven semitones.

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Xylophone

The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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31 equal temperament

In music, 31 equal temperament, 31-ET, which can also be abbreviated 31-TET (31 tone ET) or 31-EDO (equal division of the octave), also known as tricesimoprimal, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 31 equal-sized steps (equal frequency ratios).

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See also

Electric and electronic keyboard instruments

Human–machine interaction

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard

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