| The keyboard is a set of adjacent keys that are | | | | almost the same manner as the traditional |
| depressible on a musical instrument. This is | | | | keyboards. You will find that the modern musical |
| especially in the case of a piano. Keyboards | | | | keyboards can play some compositions |
| consists of keys that are required to play the | | | | automatically. These compositions have already |
| twelve notes found in the western scale of music | | | | been programmed in the memory of the |
| with some longer keys and some shorter keys | | | | keyboard. |
| that gets repeated at an interval of octave. If | | | | If you press a particular key on the keyboard it |
| you depress a key on a piano keyboard it | | | | automatically starts playing the compositions. |
| produces sound. | | | | There are some musical keyboards in which you |
| The sound is produced either mechanically or | | | | can even save your compositions. These kind of |
| electronically in case of electronic keyboards. The | | | | keyboards are specially used by musicians who |
| keyboard is also found on a synthesizer and the | | | | compose and record music for later use. |
| pattern is almost the same as the piano. The | | | | Musical keyboards are popular as gifts. These |
| history of the musical keyboard layout can be | | | | keyboards are available in a wide range of sizes |
| traced back to the first century. Since then the | | | | as well as prices. You will also buy portable |
| keyboard has gone through a lot of changes. | | | | keyboards, which are purposely designed to be |
| The basic layout of the keys has not quite | | | | used by the children. The price varies according to |
| changed from older keyboards; it has maintained | | | | the quality of the instrument. |