Keyboard

Accordion Pictures

A piano accordion. This is a modern professional model with approximately 41 piano keys (on the left) and button keys (on the right).

Another type of piano accordion. This model features button keys but no piano keys.

Concertina Pictures

A concertina. Button keys and a handle are located on each of the traditional hexagonal-shaped ends of the concertina (here we can just see the left hand end). Handmade concertinas may take up to 200 hours to build, whereas mass-produced concertinas are cheaper to buy but look less attractive. The concertina pictured above is an "English concertina" (identifiable by its thumb and little finger holds).

A miniature concertina

Electronic Keyboard Pictures

Woman playing a keyboard (this instrument is also often called an electronic keyboard, digital piano or electric piano)

Close-up view of a keyboard

Organ Pictures

A small pipe organ in an American church

This wonderfully ornate baroque organ is located in St Wenzel church, in Naumburg, Germany. It was built by the famous organ builder, Zacharias Hildebrandt, in the years 1743-46. This organ was once played by the great composer and organist, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Organist at the keyboard of the organ

Piano Pictures

Concert Grand Piano

Grand Piano with Stool

Antique Piano

Woman Playing a Digital Piano (this instrument is also called a keyboard, electronic keyboard, or electric piano)