What is the diffrence between an electric piano and a keyboard?
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 s
