Presentación sobre instrumentos de teclado.

1. DIFFERENT TYPES OF KEYBOARD
INSTRUMENTS
An overview of

2. THE PIANO
The most versatile of musical instruments
Crucial instrument in Western
classical music, jazz, film & television
Favourite instrument of composers
Has 88 keys.

3. THE HARPSICHORD
Used from the late middle ages
Until the early 19th century when
Piano took over.
Many have two ‘manuals’.
There was no way to control
Dynamics of the sound
Used in Baroque music

4. DIGITAL PIANO
Has 88 weighted keys to make it feel
Like a piano
A focus on a small number of high
Quality sounds
Used in television/film as well as
Pop and jazz music.

5. THE ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD
Caple of producing hundreds of voices, styles and beats to a questionable
Sound quality
Portable
Often has around 60 un weighted keys that make it feel unnatural

6. THE CHURCH ORGAN
The largest in the family. It belongs
to
the wind family
Often has multiple manuals
Can be played with the feet
Creates a huge sound and the
timbre
Can be changed by pulling out
various
Stops
The sound is created by air pumped
Through long pipes

7. THE HAMMOND ORGAN
Used in soul, pop, jazz, rock
And television music.
Often played with a rotating
speaker

8. THE ACCORDIAN
Sound is produced by the
Musician squeezing it
Between his arms.
It belongs to the wind family
Very short keyboard only
Used for playing the melody
Used for traditional folk
Music from around Europe
and South American dance
Music.