A friend of mine has a keyboard with less than the full 88 keys found on a standard piano. How does this limit the instrument in terms of what music can be played?
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It limits the range to fewer octaves compared to a full keyboard. That’s not an issue with most popular music but serious players, especially of classical music, will be hampered by this.
Electronic keyboards have the benefit of transposition, so you can raise or lower the entire keyboard by one or more octaves. This gives you access to the higher or lower registers, but at the expense of losing part of the other register.
So it really depends on what you’re doing. I’m a very casual keyboardist and I still found the 48-key to be too limiting but a 61-key suits me just fine. At the other end, are people who do full production using a 25-key.
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