Classic Keyboards
This musical instrument has steel wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard.
What is a piano?
A device which produces an arpeggio based on one chord held down on the keyboard.
What is an arpeggiator?
This genre is often associated with studying and relaxing.
What is lo-fi?
This musical legend became blind shortly after birth and was known as a piano prodigy in the 60's.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Combining the words "keyboard" and "guitar," this instrument allows keyboard players to move around on stage with their instrument.
What is a keytar?
This keyboard instrument is often played in funk, gospel, and jazz and often has two sets of keys.
What is an organ?
This parameter controllers whether or not two notes slide to each other and how fast they slide.
What is portamento? (glide)
This sub-genre of electronic dance music originated in England and features wobbly bass, screeching synth leads, and pitch shifted samples.
What is dubstep?
This highly acclaimed artist is known for their flamboyant flair and driving piano riffs, including those in "Take Me To The Pilot," "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," and "Tiny Dancer."
Who is Elton John?
This piece of equipment creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
What is a drum machine?
This classic electric piano sound used in jazz and RnB was formerly owned by Fender.
What is Rhodes?
A universal standard system introduced in the early 1980's which enables instruments to transmit or receive data to or from another instrument.
What is MIDI?
This genre of music is widely considered as the first form of electronic music. Artists include Swedish House Mafia, Daft Punk, and deadmau5.
What is House music?
This New York icon became one of the most successful singer/songwriters of the late 20th century with hits like "Movin' Out," "Vienna," and "Piano Man."
This device sends and receives musical information to and from a computer.
What is a MIDI controller?
This keyboard, featured in Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," is loosely based off of an instrument with a similar name from the late middle ages.
What is a clavinet?
Often used to modulate different effects such as cutoff or pitch, this oscillator that moves so slow that it is below the audible frequency range.
What is an LFO?
What is drum n' bass?
Ray Manzarek is the keyboard player of this famous band known for "Light My Fire," "Touch Me," and "Break on Through."
Who are The Doors?
Typically operated by a keyboard, this instrument produces a wide variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies.
What is a synthesizer?
This electronic musical instrument generates tone by using two high-frequency oscillators. The pitch is controlled by the movement of the performer's hand toward and away from the circuit.
What is a theremin?
When abbreviated, it is "ADSR."
What is "Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release?"
This genre of music is a retro-inspired genre of electronic-based music, with a strong 80's aesthetic linked to it.
What is synthwave?
This famous rock keyboardist is known for plugging his Hammond organ into a Marshall stack to play loud enough in Deep Purple.
Who is Jon Lord?
This special type of synth analyzes sound, usually the human voice, and changes the sonic character in real time.
What is a vocoder?