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Bösendorfer (L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH) is an Austrian piano manufacturer and, since 2008, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation. [1] Bösendorfer is unusual in that it produces 97 - and 92- key models in addition to instruments with standard 88-key keyboards .
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a ... (a Bösendorfer 290 "Imperial" has 97 ... Organs normally have 61 keys per manual ...
The Bösendorfer Imperial features 97 keys: a full eight octaves. This is in contrast to their other extended model, the Bösendorfer 225, which has 92 keys (down to F 0). The extra keys, which are all at the bass end of the keyboard (that is, to the left), are colored black so that the pianist can tell them apart from the normal keys of an 88 ...
[109] [110] The technology in the Spirio pianos was created in 2007 by Wayne Stahnke, an Austrian engineer who has previously made digital player piano systems for other piano companies, like Yamaha and Bösendorfer. [111] Wayne Stahnke's technology, originally called Live Performance Model LX, was sold to Steinway in 2014 and re-branded as Spirio.
Christie spent a significant portion of her career promoting the Moór-Duplex piano, a double keyboard with a coupler between the two manuals (an octave apart), invented by Christie’s husband, Hungarian pianist, inventor, and composer Emanuel Moór. [2] [3] The Moór-Duplex aided in the playing of octaves, tenths, and even chromatic glissandos.
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.
The keyboard runs from E1 to E7 and it comes with 73 keys. [9] The E to E keyboard configuration is similar to one used in the Rhodes and Yamaha CP-70 electronic pianos. [ 2 ] The 73 keys model does not have continuous pressure monitoring like 88 keys model, which could be used to add extra modulation to the sound.
This has now become the Lumatone Keyboard. [3] Hex is a free software MIDI sequencer, which uses a generalized keyboard in place of the standard piano keyboard. Lanes are extended from the keys and MIDI notes can be drawn into each lane, and edited, with the mouse (as in a standard MIDI sequencer like Logic, Reaper, SONAR, etc.).