Instruments

Keyboard

The keyboard is a musical instrument of the electronic instrument family. Keyboards are very similar to a piano in appearance and are capable of producing a variety of sounds that would normally require a large number of instruments to produce. Keyboards are used in a wide variety of music genres including rock, pop, gospel, jazz, blues, alternative and many more. Some features of keyboards include chord recognition, demonstration songs, touch sensitivity, after touch, polyphony, multi-timbre, split point, accompanying tracks, tempo, auto harmonizing, pitch bending, vibrato, drawbars, and piano action to mimic the feel of a traditional acoustic piano while playing. Famous keyboard players include Billie Currie of Ultravox, Vadim Pruzhanov of DragonForce, Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic, George Duke, Jan Hammer, Steve Winwood, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, and Tony Banks of Genesis.