Keyboards

The first keyboard that has had an impact on music is the piano. The piano has become a symbol for music. It has helped shape music in what we know today. I think almost every genre of music has a piano playing some where in the song or piece. I think it is amazing that people still play the same design piano as musicians played back when the piano first came out. Today, the piano has inspired musical instrument inventors to take the idea of hitting a key and producing a tone to a whole new level. Keyboards can produce almost any note from any instrument that the musician would want. I like the idea that different tones and sounds can be produced from pressing a key, but I also think that producing a wind instrument or brass sound from pressing a key is kind of taking away the art of playing the instrument. The skill that comes from playing a wind instrument or brass instrument is unique to that instrument and being able to play that tones by pressing a key and not playing the instrument is kind of depressing. I am not saying that playing a wind or brass instrument is harder than a keyboard, I am just saying it is a different skill. If a keyboard could play all the instruments with a push of a key, what will happen to the instruments that the keyboard has replaced? I think that the advancing technology of a keyboard is interesting and it has effected the music world by producing many different sounds, I just hope that one day it does not replace all the musical instruments.