Types and Usage
A musical keyboard has a set of keys which gives different sounds which wen pressed different keys. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.
Keyboard instruments were further developed in the early twentieth century. Early electromechanical instruments, such as the Ondes Martenot, appeared early in the century. This was a very important contribution to the keyboard’s history.
List of the Keyboard Instruments:
There are mainly 4 types of Keyboard Instruments.
1. Chordophones:
Bowed clavier
Clavichord
Clavinet
Harpsichord
Hurdy-gurdy
Piano
2. Aerophones
Accordion
Calliope
Claviola
Harmonium/Reed organ
Melodica
Pipe organ
Regal
3. Idiophones
Carillon
Celesta
Dulcitone
Electric piano
Glasschord
Keyboard glockenspiel
Toy piano
Terpodion
4. Electrophones
Digital piano
Electronic keyboard
Electronic organ
Electronic piano
Keytar
Mellotron
Optigan
Synthesizer
