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Keyboard may refer to:


Text input

* Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware


Music

* Musical keyboard, a set of adjacent keys or levers used to play a musical instrument **
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 **
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 * Keyboard instrument, a musical instrument played using a keyboard **
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 ** Electronic keyboard, a synthesizer


See also

* Input method * Keypad {{disambiguation