keyboard instrument

Noun
  1. A musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard (synset 103619741)
    is a type of: instrument, musical instrument - any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
    subtypes:
    • accordion, squeeze box - a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
    • celesta - a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard
    • clavichord - an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound
    • clavier, klavier - a stringed instrument that has a keyboard
    • organ, pipe organ - wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
    • forte-piano, piano, pianoforte - a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
    • synthesiser, synthesizer - (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments

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