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  2. Enharmonic keyboard - Wikipedia

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    "Enharmonic keyboard" is a term used by scholars in their studies of enharmonic keyboard instruments (organ, harpsichord, piano, [4] harmonium and synthesizer) with reference to a keyboard with more than 12 keys per octave. Scholarly consensus about the term's precise definition currently has not been established.

  3. Manual (music) - Wikipedia

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    Organ keys often require less force to depress than piano keys; however, the keys on mechanical instruments can be very heavy (St Sulpice Paris, St Ouen Rouen, St Etienne Caen, etc.). When depressed, an organ key continues to sound its note at the same volume until the organist releases the key, unlike a piano key, whose note gradually fades ...

  4. Chord organ - Wikipedia

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    Chord buttons on the chord organ ()Chord organ is a kind of home organ that has a single short keyboard and a set of chord buttons, enabling the musician to play a melody or lead with one hand and accompanying chords with the other, like the accordion with a set of chord buttons which was originated from a patent by Cyrill Demian in 1829, etc. [1] [2] (See Accordion#History [note 1])

  5. Pedal keyboard - Wikipedia

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    A "^" symbol indicates the toe, and a "u" or "o" indicates the heel. Symbols below notes indicate the left foot, and above notes indicates the right foot. Swedish organist L. Nilson published a method for the pedal keyboard, the English translation of which was titled A System of Technical Studies in Pedal Playing for the Organ (Schirmer, 1904 ...

  6. Musical keyboard - Wikipedia

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    In a typical keyboard layout, black note keys have uniform width, and white note keys have uniform width and uniform spacing at the front of the keyboard. In the larger gaps between the black keys, the width of the natural notes C, D and E differ slightly from the width of keys F, G, A and B. This allows close to uniform spacing of 12 keys per ...

  7. Short octave - Wikipedia

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    Here, E played C, the front half of the F ♯ key played D, and the (less accessible) rear half played F ♯. The front half of the G ♯ key played E, and the rear half played G ♯. As with the short octave, the key labeled E played the lowest note C. Thus, playing the nominal sequence E F ♯ (front) G ♯ (front) F F ♯ (back) G G ♯ (back) A

  8. Electronic keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Piano simulation: A common feature of the digital piano, stage piano, and high-end workstations that allows real-time simulation of a sampled piano sound. It provides various piano-related effects, such as room reverberation, sympathetic resonance , piano lid position (as on a grand piano), and settings to adjust the tuning and overall sound ...

  9. List of compositions for organ - Wikipedia

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    American Rhapsody (revised for Organ 2002) Concerto for Free Bass Accordion (revised for Organ 2002) Shchetynsky, Alexander. Shapes and Colours (1999) Sonata (2021) Dave Soldier. Hockets and Inventions, op. 6 (1990) Organum, Book I, op. 23 (2011) Svoboda, Tomas. Symphony No. 3 for Organ & Orchestra, op. 43 (1965) Offertories for Organ (Vol.