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Keyboard instrument

Index Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. [1]

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  1. 49 relations: Accordion, Aerophone, Articulation (music), Bartolomeo Cristofori, Bell tower, Bowed clavier, Bowed string instrument, Byzantine Empire, Carillon, Celesta, Claudian, Clavichord, Clavicymbalum, Digital piano, Dynamics (music), Electric organ, Electric piano, Electronic keyboard, Electronic musical instrument, Enharmonic keyboard, Glasschord, Hammered dulcimer, Harpsichord, Hurdy-gurdy, Idiophone, Joseph Haydn, Keyboard percussion instrument, Lautenwerck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maryamin, Homs, Mellotron, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musical instrument, Musical keyboard, Natural (music), Ondes Martenot, Orchestrina di camera, Organ (music), Phrase (music), Piano, Pipe organ, Plucked string instrument, Pump organ, String instrument, Synthesizer, Syria, Tangent piano, Water organ, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

  2. Electric musical instruments

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). Keyboard instrument and Accordion are keyboard instruments.

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Aerophone

An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).

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Articulation (music)

Articulation is a musical parameter that determines how a single note or other discrete event is sounded.

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Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.

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Bell tower

A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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Bowed clavier

The bowed clavier (Bogenclavier, Streichklavier or Geigenwerk in German) is a keyboard instrument strung with gut strings, the tone of which is produced by a steadily revolving, well rosined cylinder powered by a foot pedal, a mechanism similar to that found in the hurdy-gurdy. Keyboard instrument and bowed clavier are keyboard instruments.

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Bowed string instrument

Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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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. Keyboard instrument and carillon are keyboard instruments.

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Celesta

The celesta or celeste, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Keyboard instrument and celesta are keyboard instruments.

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Claudian

Claudius Claudianus, known in English as Claudian (Greek: Κλαυδιανός), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho.

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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. Keyboard instrument and clavichord are keyboard instruments.

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Clavicymbalum

The clavicymbalum (or clavisymbalum, clavisimbalum, etc.) is an early keyboard instrument and ancestor of the harpsichord. Keyboard instrument and clavicymbalum are keyboard instruments.

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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. Keyboard instrument and digital piano are electronic musical instruments.

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Dynamics (music)

In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.

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Electric organ

An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ.

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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 keyboard

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

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Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Keyboard instrument and electronic musical instrument are electronic musical 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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Glasschord

The glasschord (French: fortepiano à cordes de verre) is a struck crystallophone resembling the celesta, invented circa 1785 by physicist M. Beyer of Paris. Keyboard instrument and glasschord are keyboard instruments.

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Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.

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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. Keyboard instrument and harpsichord are keyboard instruments.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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Idiophone

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).

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Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.

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Keyboard percussion instrument

A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in the same pattern as a piano (organ, or piano accordion) keyboard and played with hands or percussion mallets.

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Lautenwerck

The lautenwerck (also spelled lautenwerk), alternatively called lute-harpsichord (lute-clavier) or keyboard lute, is a European keyboard instrument of the Baroque period. Keyboard instrument and lautenwerck are keyboard instruments.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Maryamin, Homs

Maryamin (مريمين, also spelled Mariamin or Meriamen) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate starting from 2008 after being part of the Hama Governorate, located in Homs Gap southwest of Hama.

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Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. Keyboard instrument and Mellotron are electronic musical instruments and keyboard instruments.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Musical instrument

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

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Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboard instrument and musical keyboard are keyboard instruments.

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Natural (music)

In modern Western music notation, a natural (♮) is a musical symbol that cancels a previous sharp or flat on a note in the written music.

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Ondes Martenot

The ondes Martenot ("Martenot waves") or ondes musicales ("musical waves") is an early electronic musical instrument. Keyboard instrument and ondes Martenot are electronic musical instruments and keyboard instruments.

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Orchestrina di camera

The orchestrina di camera (or clavecin harmonique) is a small keyboard instrument invented around the 1860s by the English builder of harmoniums and organs, Cheltenham-born W. E. Evans (1810–1884). Keyboard instrument and orchestrina di camera are keyboard instruments.

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Organ (music)

Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. Keyboard instrument and organ (music) are keyboard instruments.

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Phrase (music)

In music theory, a phrase (φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.

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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. Keyboard instrument and piano are keyboard instruments.

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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. Keyboard instrument and pipe organ are keyboard instruments.

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Plucked string instrument

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings.

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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. Keyboard instrument and pump organ are keyboard instruments.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Synthesizer

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

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Tangent piano

The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early pianos in design.

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Water organ

The water organ or hydraulic organ (ὕδραυλις) (early types are sometimes called hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of pipe organ blown by air, where the power source pushing the air is derived by water from a natural source (e.g. by a waterfall) or by a manual pump.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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See also

Electric musical instruments

References

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

Also known as Black notes, Clavier (instrument), Keyboad instrument, Keyboard (instrument), Keyboard (musical instrument), Keyboard family, Keyboard instruments, Keyboard master, Keyboard music, White note, White notes.