List of keyboard instruments
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. 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]
This list categorizes keyboard instruments by their designs, and thus operations.
Chordophones
- Autoharp
- Bowed clavier
- Clavichord
- Clavicymbalum
- Clavinet
- Harpsichord
- Hurdy-gurdy
- Marxophone
- Piano
- Tangent piano
- Xenorphica
Additionally, members of the harpsichord and piano families may also use alternative setups to make the instruments more compact:
- Portable
- Spinets
- Square
- Uprights
Aerophones
Idiophones
Electrophones
References
- Kelzenberg, David. "What are Historical Keyboard Instruments?". Archived from the original on 2013-02-12. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
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