keyboard
Other forms: keyboards
What do pianos and computers have in common? They both have keyboards! A computer keyboard has numbers and letters, but a piano keyboard has musical notes. The keyboard is the part that you press with your fingers.
Besides the rockin’ keyboard of a synthesizer, piano, or organ, there is also the computer keyboard. This keyboard is used for typing, with the earliest examples being the keyboards on typewriters. Occasionally, the word keyboard is used as a verb, meaning "to type on keyboard." It’s also, literally, a board with little hooks to hang the other kind of keys on. The musical instrument meaning came first, around 1819.
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device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the liketypes:computer keyboard, keypada keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboardtypewriter keyboarda keyboard for manually entering characters to be printedQWERTY keyboardthe standard typewriter keyboard; the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y are the first six from the left on the top row of letter keystype of:devicean instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
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holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hungtype of:holdera holding device
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Review this list and your music vocabulary will be pitch perfect. You'll learn about musical notation, genres of music, different types of instruments, and much more. Master these words and you won't miss a beat!