Keyboard instrument is nothing but a beautiful musical instrument played with the help of a keyboard. Piano is the most common example of this instrument. Some of the other keyboard instruments are celestas that are struck idiophones used by a keyboard, carillons that are housed in belfries or bell towers of various churches or other such municipal buildings. There are various non-acoustic instruments as well that are included in the list of keyboard instruments and they are electronic organs, keyboards imitating other musical sounds, and synthesizers.
Recently, ‘keyboard’ is a term usually used to depict keyboard style synthesizers. A sensitive performer who operates it under his fingers, keyboard may also be used for controlling dynamics, shading, phrasing, articulation, and other expression elements. This control is dependent on the design as well as the instrument abilities.