Keyboard may refer to:
Text input
* Keyboard, part of a
typewriter
A typewriter is a Machine, mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of Button (control), keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an i ...
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Computer keyboard
A computer keyboard is a built-in or peripheral input device modeled after the typewriter keyboard which uses an arrangement of buttons or Push-button, keys to act as Mechanical keyboard, mechanical levers or Electronic switching system, electro ...
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Keyboard layout
A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard. Standard keybo ...
, 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 keyboard played with hands, as opposed to;
** Pedalboard or
pedal keyboard, played with feet
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Enharmonic keyboard, one of several layouts that incorporate more than 12 tones per octave
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital piano ...
, a musical instrument played using a keyboard
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...
; can be controlled by an electronic keyboard
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Electronic keyboard, a synthesizer
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Keyboard percussion instrument, a family of pitched percussion instruments arranged in the layout of a keyboard
Publications
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Keyboard (magazine), a magazine dedicated to keyboard instruments and digital music
See also
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Input method
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Keypad
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