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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.
Six Little Preludes (933–938) An 18th-century set of short preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 933 – Little Prelude in C major. BWV 934 – Little Prelude in C minor. BWV 935 – Little Prelude in D minor. BWV 936 – Little Prelude in D major. BWV 937 – Little Prelude in E major. BWV 938 – Little Prelude in E minor.
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 ...
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.
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 Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time clavier referred to a variety of keyboard instruments, namely the harpsichord, the clavichord and the organ. The modern German spelling for the collection is Das ...
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.
accordion, harmonica, pump organ, yu. The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usually covers two or three octaves.