KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does keyboard instrument mean? 

• KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT (noun)
  The noun KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:

1. a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard

  Familiarity information: KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("keyboard instrument" is a kind of...):

instrument; musical instrument (any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "keyboard instrument"):

accordion; squeeze box (a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player)

celesta (a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard)

clavichord (an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound)

clavier; Klavier (a stringed instrument that has a keyboard)

organ; pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)

forte-piano; piano; pianoforte (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)

synthesiser; synthesizer ((music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments)