what is the diffrence between an electric piano and a keyboard?

Question

it is for my homework needs to be detailed as can be

Answer 1

An electric piano (e-piano) is an electric musical instrument whose popularity was at its greatest during the 1960s and 1970s. Many models were designed to replace a (heavy) piano on stage, while others were originally conceived for use in school or college piano labs for the simultaneous tuition of several students using headphones. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electronic signals by pickups.

The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s; the 1929 Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano was among the first. Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar's Vivi-Tone Clavier.

It should be noted that no electric pianos are currently in production; the last instruments of this type were made in the mid-1980s.


A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds.

Keyboards almost all share the common layout shown. Musical instruments with keyboards of this type include the piano, harpsichord, clavichord, organ, electric piano, electronic piano, digital piano, synthesizer, "arranger keyboard" or "home keyboard" (also called "electronic keyboard"), celesta, dulcitone, accordion, melodica, glasschord, and carillon. Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often called the piano keyboard.

Answer 2

A regular acoustic piano will always make the normal piano sound better and fuller when kept in tune. However, an electric keyboard is portable, makes alternate sounds, can be amplified, can be plugged into a computer to record with and is perhaps generally more useful for a musician. Just in-case I misunderstood you and you were asking the difference between an electric piano and an electric synthesizer, there's no difference. EDIT: Also note that an electric keyboard does not have to be tuned where an acoustic piano has to be tuned about once a year for a casual musician.

Answer 3

Electric piano is a very specific sound. Although true "electric pianos" such as Rhodes or Wurlitzer pianos are rare, the vintage sounds are as popular as ever. From the 60s and 70s, the Rhodes ruled rock, funk, jazz, R&B and soul. Players like Joseph Zwanule, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Ray Charles made the Rhodes and Wurly pianos famous.

The Rhodes or Wurly had actual "tines" or tuning forks which were struck by hammers and the sound was picked up electromagnetically and amplifed just like an electric guitar.

In the 80s, the FM piano was everywhere. You couldn't listen to a ballad or pop song without the Yamaha DX7 FM electric piano sound melting your speakers with saccherine overload. That was when the terms "electric piano" and "keyboard" became blurred, because the term "electric piano" became associated with the SOUND rather than with the instrument.

Today most digital sampling keyboards emulate the sounds of the Rhodes, the FM piano and the Wurlitzer. It is WAY easier to carry a digital synthesizer or keyboard around than one of those heavy and delicate old electric pianos!

Of course, there are lots of purists out there (they're always there....) that think that "these newfangled digital contraptions don't capture all the nuances of the 'real' instruments." Blah blah blah, whatever....

Answer 4

Nowadays, you would ask "what is the difference between a digital piano and a synthesizer?" Here's the difference: An electric or digital piano is designed to play and sound like a piano, so electric and digital pianos usually have 88 keys, just like a real piano, and the keys are usually weighted and are also velocity and aftertouch-sensitive on the high-end electric/digital pianos. A keyboard or synthesizer is designed to produce a wide variety of musical sounds and is not supposed to be anything like a piano. Most keyboards and synthesizers have 61 keys that may be velocity and aftertouch-sensitive but are not weighted, and keyboards and synthesizers have add-ons most pianos don't like percussion/rhythm sequencers. So an electric or digital piano really only reproduces one instrument, but a keyboard or synthesizer can reproduce a bunch, even an entire orchestra. Does that help?

Answer 5

A keyboard can make a lot of sounds from different instruments. An electric piano plays on electricity but doesn't produce different sounds..

Answer 6

A keyboard can reproduce the sounds of other instruments electronically

Answer 7

nowdays no difference,
keyboard comp is better than all but Grand piano

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