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Digital piano

A digital piano is a type of electronic keyboard instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to the traditional acoustic piano, both in how it feels to play and in the sound it produces. Digital pianos use either synthesized emulation or recorded samples of an acoustic piano, which are played through one or more internal loudspeakers. They also incorporate weighted keys, which recreate the feel of an acoustic piano. Some digital pianos are designed to also look like an upright or grand piano. Others may be very simple, without a stand.

Not to be confused with electric piano or electronic piano.

While digital pianos may sometimes fall short of acoustic ones in feel and sound, their advantages include being smaller, weighing much less, and costing less than an acoustic piano. In addition, they do not need to be tuned, and their tuning can be modified to match the tuning of another instrument (e.g. a pipe organ). Like other electronic musical instruments, they can be connected to an amplifier or a PA system to produce a sound loud enough for a large venue or, at the other extreme, may be heard through headphones only. Some digital pianos can emulate other sounds besides the piano, the most common ones being pipe organ, electric piano, Hammond organ, and harpsichord. Digital pianos are often used in music schools and music studios as a replacement for traditional instruments.[1]

Volume control; line-out audio connections; headphone output

Additional instrument sounds

implementation (most provide General MIDI, which offers 128 instrument sounds and 9 drum kits)

MIDI

Features to assist in learning (such as illuminated keys) and (such as a built-in sequencer)

composition

Transposition

Manufacturers[edit]

Well-known manufacturers of digital pianos include Dynatone,[9] Casio, Clavia, Dexibell,[10] Kawai, Korg, Kurzweil, Orla, Roland, Suzuki, and Yamaha.[11]

Electronic keyboard

Electric piano

Electronic piano

Scorewriter

Synthesia

Synthesizer

Virtual piano

Walking Piano

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- includes history of the 290SE (first reproducing computer controlled pianos developed in 1978), their modern CEUS system, with complete audio files of songs & images.

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