Keyboard Instruments Review

Keyboard Instrument

Even non-musicians are familiar with keyboard instruments. Many people mistakenly believe that the harpsichord was the earliest keyboard instruments. Harpsichords were undoubtedly a precursor to the piano.

However, the pipe organ actually predates the harpsichord by some 1100 years. In fact, the pipe organ was the only keyboard instruments until the invention of the clavichord and the harpsichord.

The earliest pipe organs were massive structures. Even fewer people were trained to install and repair them. Pipe organs often contained multiple keyboards to operate the many pipes and produce the rich sounds [More]