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  2. List of keyboard instruments - Wikipedia

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    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. [1]

  3. Keyboard instrument - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Piano - Wikipedia

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    The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a chromatic scale in equal temperament. A musician who specializes in piano is called a pianist.

  5. Musical keyboard - Wikipedia

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    A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the ...

  6. Musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist.

  7. Category:Keyboard instruments - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Carillon - Wikipedia

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    The 56-bell carillon of Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [ 1 ] A carillon (US: / ˈkærəlɒn / KARR-ə-lon, UK: / kəˈrɪljən / kə-RIL-yən[ 2 ][ 3 ]) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are cast in bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and tuned in ...

  9. Square piano - Wikipedia

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    A square grand piano. The square piano is a type of piano that has horizontal strings arranged diagonally across the rectangular case above the hammers and with the keyboard set in the long side, with the sounding board above a cavity in the short side. It is variously attributed to Silbermann and Frederici and was improved by Petzold and Babcock.

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