Electronic Keyboard

Isomorphic Keyboard







Enharmonic Keyboard


Vicentino's enharmonic keyboard (Italy, 1555) with version of tuning in cents



Performance Music Systems Syntar and its inventor, George Mattson. Syntar was
the earliest keytar synthesizer product exhibited at 1979 Atlanta.


Yamaha SHS-10

Some manufacturers and retailers divide their keyboard products into the
following categories:
Digital piano - Electronic keyboards designed to sound and feel like
an acoustic piano.
Stage piano - A type of digital piano designed for stage or live band
use.
Synthesizer - Electronic keyboards that uses various sound synthesis
to produce a wide variety of sounds.
Arranger - Electronic keyboards that can produce a range of sounds
as well as backing accompaniments accompany the performer, and is
usually played by the left hand. An arranger keyboard player is
usually called one-man bands.








An electronic keyboard (also called digital keyboard, portable
keyboard, or home keyboard) is an electronic or digital keyboard
instrument.
An isomorphic keyboard is a musical input device consisting of a two-
dimensional grid of note-controlling elements (such as buttons or keys)
on which any given sequence and/or combination of musical
intervals has the "same shape" on the keyboard wherever it occurs
within a key, across keys, across octaves, and across tunings.
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
sharp and D flat, but an enharmonic keyboard would have two different
keys and pitches for these notes.
A keytar is a relatively lightweight keyboard (with or without a built-
in synthesizer) that is supported by a strap around the neck and
shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is supported by a strap. Keytars
allow players a greater range of movement compared to conventional
keyboards, which are placed on stationary stands.