Having a Look at the Keys of a Toy Musical Keyboard!

Keyboard is one of the musical instruments which I enjoy hearing, though I never had the chance to learn using one! I had made a toy ‘piano’ while at college using recycled metal strips, an array of resistors, capacitors and an oscillator circuit. Of course it was nothing near a real piano! Now I thought of having a closer look at the toy keyboard bought for the little one at home. A standard piano keyboard has 88 keys, of which 52 are white and 36 are black. This toy piano keyboard has 15 black keys and 22 white keys. Here the first set of black keys are three in number while next set is two in number. These sets together comprise an octave. This toy keyboad has three octaves. Other bigger keyboards have more number of keys and octaves.

I was just playing some of the keys just for fun and not in any particular musical note, as I have no knowlege of how to play muscial notes.

Of more interest to me were the preset demo songs which can be played by just pressing the buttons once, without any knowledge of musical notes. There are also buttons to produce sounds corresponding to some musical instruments which come out through the speakers when you press the buttons.

Pressing the last blue button in the series toggles between sound of drums and animal sounds. Once the animal sounds are activated, one can get sounds of bird, duck, frog or dog. There are buttons named T1 to T8 which give tones of piano, violin, banjo, music box, organ, trumpet, bell and guitar when the keys are pressed. There are 8 rhythm keys for rock, twist, march, samba, slow rock, disco, waltz and blubs, which if pressed, give a continous background rhythm along with musical notes of the keys. My wish is to buy a regular musical keyboad and try learning how to use them using the plenty of online videos available. Of course, I am more interested in learning the technical aspects rather than playing excellent music, which I presume is way beyond me.