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keyboard instrument

class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard
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Summary

keyboard instrument is a family of musical instruments[1]. It draws 3,439 Wikipedia views per month (family of musical instruments category, ranking #6 of 55).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: musical instrument[3]
  • Commons category: Keyboard instruments[4]
  • Unicode character: 🎹[5]
  • Has part(s): musical keyboard[6]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 300 BC[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Keyboard instruments[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9]
  • Used by: keyboardist[10]
  • Different from: musical keyboard[11]

Why It Matters

keyboard instrument has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → keyboard-instruments
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: keyboard-instruments, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289945408|keyboard instruments (#289945408)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/79"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0202068-klavesove-nastroje
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0202068-klavesove-nastroje, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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