Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. Keyboard instruments can be wind instruments, string instruments, percussion instruments, or electronic instruments.

The most popular keyboard instruments are probably the piano and the synthesizer.

String keyboard instruments:

Clavichord
Harpsichord - may also be called a cembalo or virginal
Piano

Wind keyboard instuments:

Accordion
Melodica
Harmonium
Organ

Electronic keyboard instruments:

Synthesizer
Rhodes electric piano
MIDI keyboard controller

Other:

Celesta (struck metal plaques)

Among early keyboard instruments are the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord. The piano appeared during the 18th century. Early electromechanical instruments, predecessors of the synthesizer, appeared in the early 20th century.

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