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A musical instrument. |
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Organ |
Keyboard instrument which produces sound by blowing air through pipes or across reeds. |
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Piano |
Keyboard instrument with chromatic keys which, when pressed, move hammers to hit strings
in the body of the instrument. There are also foot pedals for dampening and sustaining
the sound.
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StringedKeyboardInstrument |
A keyboard Instrument with strings.
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AcousticKeyboard |
Keyboard instrument which produces sound by plucking or striking strings. |
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Celesta |
Soft and twinkly-sounding small 3-5 octave keyboard in which hammers strike steel
bars placed over wooden resonators.
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Chamberlin |
Developed by Wisconsin inventor Harry Chamberlin and produced from 1956 up to the
early 80s. An innovative keyboard instrument with key-triggered tape heads that activate
and play back seconds-long clips of instrument recordings. Harry Chamberlin recorded
most of the sounds himself in his home studio. Only officially distributed in the
US and Canada. The famous Mellotron was developed as a somewhat illicit copy of Chamberlin
instruments brought to the UK by a Chamberlin salesman. The Chamberlin can be heard
on David Bowie's Low, as well as on many other major recordings from the 60s and 70s.
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Dulcitone |
Keyboard instrument designed in the 1860s. It produces sound with felt hammers which
strike pitched tuning forks.
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ElectricPiano |
Keyboard instrument in which struck strings, reeds, or tines are electronically amplified. |
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Mellotron |
Keyboard instrument that reads tape loops of recorded instruments to generate sound.
It also has preset loops of full bands. The Mellotron was developed in 1963 as a somewhat
illicit copy of tape-based Chamberlin instruments stolen and brought to the UK by
a Chamberlin salesman. Prominently featured on 'Strawberry Fields Forever' by The
Beatles and 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie, in addition to many other rock recordings
of the 60s and 70s.
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Optigan |
Consumer-focused keyboard instrument produced in the 1970s by Optigan Corporation,
a subsidiary of Mattel. Plastic discs could be loaded in, from which preset accompaniments
and sounds could be played. Despite its intention for the consumer market, sounds
recorded for and on the Optigan have found their way into many professional recordings,
including recordings by Fiona Apple and Blur, and the soundtrack to the third season
of David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
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Pianet |
Electric piano produced by Hohner from the 60s through the 80s. There are two primary
designs, those prior to 1977, and those from 1977 to the end of production. The earlier
models feature stainless steel reeds for producing sound, variable capacitance pick-ups,
and leather activation pads. The later models feature rolled spring-steel reeds, electro-magnetic
pick-ups, and molded silicone rubber activation pads. It can be heard on recordings
such as 'Let It Be' by The Beatles and 'Joy to the World' by Three Dog Night.
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Rhodes |
Keyboard instrument with hammer-struck metal tines which are amplified via an electromagnetic
pickup plugged into an external amplifier and speaker. The first proper Fender Rhodes
was released in the mid-1960s, as an improvement on an earlier design that Harold
Rhodes created to provide an affordable keyboard for the military to use in therapy
for recovering soldiers. The Fender Rhodes has a warm, distinctive sound that has
played a major role in jazz since the late 1960s, and which has been prominently used
by other popular artists and bands such as Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, and Steely
Dan.
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SampledKeyboard |
Any keyboard instrument which produces sound by playing back recorded samples when
keys are pressed.
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ToyPiano |
Small piano meant to be played by children, with sound produced by small pitched metal
rods instead of strings.
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VakoOrchestron |
Developed as a professional version of the Optigan (a consumer-focused organ which
reads optical discs containing instrument and band recordings to produce sound). The
Orchestron's violin sounds can be prominently heard on Foreigner's 'Cold as Ice'.
Compared to the more popular and common Chamberlin and Mellotron, the Orchestron is
known primarily for its low fidelity and murky atmospheres.
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A Type of musical instrument.
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