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Within Vinony's link graph, musical keyboard is referenced by 1,186 other articles, and connects out to note sign, virginal and Italy.
It is catalogued under topics including Electric and electronic keyboard instruments, Human–machine interaction and Keyboard instruments.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- musical instrument
- Part of
- organ
- Has part
- key
- Image
- Hammond l100.jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Unicode character
- 🎹
- Commons category
- Musical keyboards
- different from
- electronic keyboard
- Wikidata usage instructions
- for instrument played (P1303) use Q52954 instead
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Encyclopedic overview
Layout of a musical keyboard (all octaves shown) The musical keyboard of a Steinway concert grand piano
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 repeat at the interval of an octave. Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce a sound—either by mechanically striking a string or tine (acoustic and electric piano, clavichord), plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe (pipe organ), striking a bell (carillon), or activating an electronic circuit (synthesizer, digital piano, electronic keyboard). Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often referred to as the piano keyboard or simply piano keys.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “musical keyboard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.