Keyboard may refer to:
Text input
* Keyboard, part of a
typewriter
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Computer keyboard
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Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
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Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
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Musical keyboard, a set of adjacent keys or levers used to play a musical instrument
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Manual (music)
A manual is a musical keyboard designed to be played with the hands, on an instrument such as a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, melodica, or synthesizer. The term "manual" is used with regard to any hand keyboard on thes ...
, a keyboard played with hands, as opposed to;
** Pedalboard or
pedal keyboard
A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music. A pedalboard has long ...
, played with feet
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Enharmonic keyboard An enharmonic keyboard is a musical keyboard, where enharmonically equivalent notes do not have identical pitches. A conventional keyboard has, for instance, only one key and pitch for C and D , but an enharmonic keyboard would have two different ...
, one of several layouts that incorporate more than 12 tones per octave
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Keyboard instrument, a musical instrument played using a keyboard
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...
, an electronic keyboard
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Electronic keyboard, a synthesizer
See also
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Input method
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Keypad
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