List Of Keyboard Instruments

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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

Chordophones produce sound from vibrating strings:

Bowed clavier
Clavichord
Clavicymbalum
Clavinet
Dolceola
Harpsichord
- Clavicymbalum
- Lautenwerck
Hurdy-gurdy
Marxophone
Piano
- Electric grand piano
- Fortepiano
Tangent piano
Xenorphica

Additionally, members of the harpsichord and piano families may also use alternative setups to make the instruments more compact:

Portable
- Folding harpsichord
- Orphica

Spinets
- Oval spinet
Square
- Square piano
- Virginals
Uprights
- Clavicytherium
- Upright pianos

Aerophones

Aerophones produce sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes:

Accordion
- Chromatic button accordion
- Melodeon
- Piano accordion
Calliope
Claviola
Concertina
Harmonetta
Pump organ
- Harmonium
- Regal
Pipe organ
Melodica

Idiophones

Idiophones produce sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow, strings, membranes or electricity:

Carillon
Celesta
Dulcitone
Electric piano
- Wurlitzer electric piano
- Rhodes piano
- Hohner Pianet
Glasschord
Keyboard glockenspiel
Toy piano
Terpodion

Electrophones

Electrophones produce sound by electrical means:

Digital piano
Electronic keyboard
Electronic organ
Keytar
Optigan
Synthesizer

References

↑ Kelzenberg, David. "What are Historical Keyboard Instruments?". Archived from the original on 2013-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130212121344/http://www.mhks.org/whatare.htm. Retrieved 2012-10-25.

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[1] Kelzenberg, David. "What are Historical Keyboard Instruments?". Archived from the original on 2013-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130212121344/http://www.mhks.org/whatare.htm. Retrieved 2012-10-25.