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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.
Christopher Latham Sholes. Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, [2] and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. [3][4][5] He was also a ...
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 ...
Description. A virginals is a smaller and simpler, rectangular or polygonal, form of harpsichord. It has only one string per note, running more or less parallel to the keyboard, on the long side of the case. Many, if not most, of the instruments were constructed without legs, and would be placed on a table for playing.
Keyboard works (Klavierwerke) by Johann Sebastian Bach traditionally refers to Chapter 8 in the BWV catalogue or the fifth series of the New Bach Edition, [1] both of which list compositions for a solo keyboard instrument like the harpsichord or the clavichord.
Electric and electronic keyboard instruments (7 C, 36 P) H. Harpsichord (4 C, 21 P, 1 F) K. Keyboard video games (1 C, 5 P) Keyboardists (18 C, 13 P) L.
Prepared piano. A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage 's dance music for Bacchanale (1940), created for a performance in a Seattle venue that lacked sufficient space for ...
The dulce melos (or doucemelle) is an early keyboard instrument and possible ancestor of the piano. The instrument is described as a type of zither, similar to a hammered dulcimer, but with the strings struck by hammers on keys. The instrument had twelve pairs of strings, each divided into three sections in a 4:2:1 ratio, resulting in a full ...