Keyboard instrument is a kind of musical instrument. It is like a harmonium. In other word we can say it is the advance form of harmonium. The keys were traditionally made of natural materials. The white tangents were made of ivory, the black of ebony, but now artificial materials like plastic are used to cover the wooden keys. Cheaper materials like oak, walnut and soft wood are used now.
Now a days different kinds of keyboard instruments are available. There are electrical keyboards too. These electrical keyboards are widly used all over through out the world. It produces pleasent sound. It is used in jazz, pop, and in other type of music too.
There are some rare variations of keyboards with more or fewer than 12 keys per octave, mostly used in microtonal music, after the discoveries and theoretical developments of musician and inventor Julian
carrillo. It's a simple featured instrument but it is suitable in all types of music.
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