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Layout of a musical keyboard (all octaves shown) The musical keyboard of a Steinway concert grand piano A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument .
An isomorphic keyboard is a musical input device consisting of a two-dimensional grid of note-controlling elements (such as buttons or keys) on which any given sequence and/or combination of musical intervals has the "same shape" on the keyboard wherever it occurs – within a key, across keys, across octaves, and across tunings.
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos.
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B ♭ (while the alto is pitched in the key of E ♭ ), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef ...
The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ invented in the third century BC. [2] The keys were likely balanced and could be played with a light touch, as is clear from the reference in a Latin poem by Claudian (late 4th century), who says magna levi detrudens murmura tactu . . . intonet, that is "let him thunder forth as he presses out mighty ...
The possibility of the duplication of pitches occurs because the generalized keyboard is, in principle, a mapping of pitches onto a closed space in which intervals and chords have fixed shapes under transposition across the keyboard; thus a generalized keyboard is a useful tool for the analysis of harmonic structures.
Percussion instruments arranged in keyboard layout, but not themselves played using a keyboard mechanism. Pages in category "Keyboard percussion instruments" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Musical keyboard, a set of adjacent keys or levers used to play a musical instrument Manual (music), a keyboard played with hands, as opposed to; Pedalboard or pedal keyboard, played with feet; Enharmonic keyboard, one of several layouts that incorporate more than 12 tones per octave; Keyboard instrument, a musical instrument played using a ...