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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments. In common language, it is mostly...
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Clavichord
The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Historically, it was widely used as a practice instrument and as an aid to composition. The clavichord...
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Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.
In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are...
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Virginals
The virginals (the plural form does not necessarily denote more than one instrument) or virginal is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in northern Europe and Italy during the late Mediaeval and Renaissance periods.
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Spinet
A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.
While the term spinet is used to designate a harpsichord, typically what is meant is the bentside spinet, described in this section. For other uses,...
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Accordion
The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
It is played by compressing or...
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Piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal....
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Celesta
The celesta (pronounced /sɨˈlɛstə/) or celeste (pronounced /sɨˈlɛst/) is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano (four- or five-octave) or of a large wooden music box (three-octave). The keys...
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Organ
The organ (from Greek όργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument...
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Electronic keyboard
An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is a keyboard instrument whose sound is generated or amplified by one or more electronic devices.
Electronic keyboards perhaps were most popular in the 1980s, and are closely related to 1980s pop and New...
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Harmonium
A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air, supplied by foot-operated or hand-operated bellows, being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion....
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Keyboard bass
The keyboard bass is the use of a low-pitched keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the bass guitar or double bass in popular music.
The earliest keyboard bass instrument was the 1960 Fender Rhodes piano bass, pictured above. The piano bass...
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Dulcitone
A dulcitone is a keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard. The instrument was designed by Thomas Machell of Glasgow and manufactured by the...
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic instrument that is capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies. Synthesizers create electrical signals, rather than direct acoustic sounds,...
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Orchestron
The Vako Orchestron is a keyboard instrument, which produces its sound through electronic amplification of sound pre-recorded on an optical disc. It is the professional version of the Mattel Optigan.
Vako Synthesizers Incorporated, founded by...
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Keyboard controller
A keyboard controller is musical keyboard instrument that does not produce any sounds of its own. It is like a keyboard synthesizer minus the synthesis circuits, or sound module. It sends MIDI note data electronically to an external sound module, a...
