An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. Electronic keyboards include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio workstations. In technical terms, an electronic keyboard is a rompler-based synthesizer with a low-wattage power amplifier and small loudspeakers.
Yamaha PSR-290 electronic keyboard
Casio CTK-530, an early-1990s electronic keyboard with PCM sound technology.
Playing an electronic keyboard.
A child playing a Casio keyboard with small-size minikeys.
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.
The piano, a common keyboard instrument
Hammond organ with part of a Leslie speaker shown
Bandoneon
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