keyboard (instrument)

A musical instrument that has a piano-style keyboard but is not itself a piano.

May be confused with a digital piano, which has more keys (88 instead of 61 or less). To distinguish a digital piano from a keyboard, look at the first three white keys. In the case of a keyboard, there is a black key between the second and third white keys. This also applies when the keyboard has 76 keys instead of 61.

Examples

A digital piano and a 76-key keyboard

See also

• Accordion
• Digital piano
• Keytar
• Melodica
• Synthesizer

The following tags are aliased to this tag: electric_keyboard (learn more).

This tag implicates instrument (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: melodica (learn more).