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Many of these keyboards were designed for children with small keys and simple preset functions suitable for educational use. [1] In 1982, the line introduced a card reader system which allowed players to learn and play along with sequenced songs. [ 2 ]
Magna Organ introduced in 1935, [7] [8] was a multi-timbral keyboard instrument invented in 1934 by a Yamaha engineer, Sei-ichi Yamashita. It was a kind of electro-acoustic instrument, an acoustic instrument with additional electronic circuits for sound modification.
Yamaha PSR-290 electronic keyboard A MIDI song played on a Casio electronic keyboard. An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. [1] Electronic keyboards include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio workstations.
Clavinova CVP-303 Player Piano. The Clavinova is a long-running line of digital pianos created by the Yamaha Corporation.The name is a portmanteau of the two words Clavier meaning 'keyboard instrument” and nova meaning “new”.
The CP has six sound models taken from Yamaha's CP4 stage piano: a Rhodes Mk.1, a Rhodes Mk.2, a Wurlitzer, a Clavinet, a Yamaha CP80 and a toy piano. [9] The keyboard has a maximum polyphony of 128 notes. The Reface CP also has an effects engine that includes drive, phaser, tremolo, delay, reverb and chorus effects. [12]
Yamaha YM2420 (OPLL2) is a variant with slightly changed registers (intentionally undocumented to avoid hardware piracy), used in Yamaha's own home keyboards.It has the same pinout and built-in FM patches as the YM2413, but several registers have parts of the bit order reversed.
The SW1000XG was popular in the professional music industry, and many of Yamaha's amateur and professional keyboards implement either XG or a subset, known as "XGlite". Many notebooks include the Yamaha YMF7xx chipset which has a scaled-down XG-compatible MIDI synth. The DB60XG, a DB50XG with an analog input, is available only in Japan.
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.