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Keyboard

Musicians use a row of levers that are pressed with their fingers to manipulate keyboard instruments. The piano, organ, and other electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos, are the most frequent. As the name implies, keyboards are classified according to how the player plays the instrument, rather than how the music is created.

This wide collection of instruments has grown in importance due to the keyboard's ability to allow a performer to play a huge number of notes at once in rapid succession. Because of this versatility, a modern pianist or organist can play any work of Western music, whether it has chordal harmonies, independent contrapuntal parts, or merely a single melody.

A lot of effort has gone into making an instrument that sounds like a piano but isn't as big or heavy as one. Electric pianos were early attempts that, while valuable in their own right, failed to accurately mimic the piano's tone.

During the same period, electric and electronic organs were produced. Using digital samples and computer models, more current electronic keyboard designs attempt to replicate the sound of certain models. There are 88 keys on each acoustic keyboard; however, lesser configurations have a minimum of 61 keys. The light plastic keys of a basic keyboard include springs that return them to their original position after being pressed.

An acoustic organ's action is comparable to that of light plastic keys on a keyboard. They imitate the resistance of a key on an acoustic piano keyboard by using weights. Learn piano and keyboard at your own pace, with SoulFul Musik Academy, the best online keyboard classes platform.

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