Awesome Keyboard

Luke from Instrument Maniac bests his 91 instrument performance, with 20 additional ways to play music. This, the snippets connect into a single song rather than just playing the same lick repeatedly. For a real challenge, try naming as many instruments as you can with your eyes closed.

A lot has changed with music over the past 60 years, but memorable melodies will always be a thing. Music teacher Milo Andreo sat down at his electric piano and synthesizer to play the introductions to a single famous song from each year since 1963. Close your eyes and see how many you can name without looking at the titles.

Musician Woody Williams aka Funky Geezer shows us how he warms up his stiff fingers on the piano before a performance by stretching them out and letting them fly across the keyboard. Be sure to poke around his TikTok channel for gems like Ain’t No Sunshine and Because I Got High, and the always popular Oh No!

Say you want to make some beats, but you don’t have a drummer in the band. While you could buy a drum machine or some sampled loops, or you could do like musician Yohan Kim and use your keyboard to perform as your rhythm section.

Not only is the new Seaboard Block the most portable and affordable version of Roli’s revolutionary keyboard, it can also be used with the Lightpad Blocks or another Seaboard Block. It comes with hundreds of sounds and can also be used with DAWs.

This unique musical instrument replaces traditional keys with soft silicone bumps which can each tweak pitch, vibrato and other dynamics. The nuanced, ethereal sounds it makes are unlike any other keyboard we’ve heard.

While touch sensitive keyboards aren’t the most practical of devices, there’s no denying the feast for the eyes of Jason Gidding’s see-through keyboard and mouse, now raising funds on Kickstarter.

The K60 FPS and K90 MMO keyboards from Corsair both have mechanical key switches and aluminum chassis. The K60 has textured WASD and 1-6 keys, while the K90 is backlit and has 18 macro keys.

Designed for playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, it offers a full-color LCD multitouch trackpad and 10 programmable LCD keys above it. A glowing LED border also offers color control. Video here.

This tiny wireless keyboard is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, provides backlit QWERTY keys and a trackpad, and works with PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3. Works up to 100 feet away.

The Engage Keyboard from Smartfish is the world’s first keyboard that prevents Repetitive Stress Injury; its patented motion system studies your typing to subtly change hand and wrist positions.

The Miniguru keyboard’s slogan is “Always on the Home Row,” and it just may do so with a built-in trackpoint, a “swirl” key-activated second layer, and three levels of tactile feedback.