An electronic keyboard

An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is a sample-based keyboard instrument. Its sound is generated or amplified by one or more electronic devices.
Electronic keyboards perhaps were most popular in the 1980s, and are closely related to 1980s pop and New Wave music, but they have remained popular since.
Modern usage of the term "electronic keyboard" typically describes a type of inexpensive sampler or synthesizer marketed to amateurs and children[citation needed]. The term is occasionally used as an umbrella descriptor for any electronic musical instruments with a musical keyboard (including electric pianos, digital pianos, synthesizers, mellotrons, samplers, electronic organs, and arranger keyboards) but professional musicians generally refer to these instruments by name or simply as "keyboards", reserving the term "electronic keyboard" for the inexpensive type noted above.
An electronic keyboard is a keyboard instrument that uses electricity to amplify the sound. Electronics keyboards are mostly used in musical instruments such as synthesizers, pianos and electric organs.
Electric organs are one the earliest instruments which used an electronic keyboard. They used oscillators and frequency dividers along with a network of filters to produce desirable sound in waveforms.
Keyboards reached a major milestone with the development of the synthesizer in the 1960s. Now, various advanced types of synthesizers using electronic keyboards are available in market.
Many instruments which have electronic keyboards are equipped with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). This helps in the diversified use of the electronics keyboard. Some keyboards are not attached to any instrument, but are only MIDI controllers.
Electronic keyboards make it easy to create music. Most of these keyboards can also be connected to a computer for performing multimedia activities. However, you may require certain software to ensure that your electronic keyboard is compatible with your computer.
Electronics keyboards are available in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, colors and price ranges. There are several web sites which sell them online. The electronic keyboard industry has been growing at a rapid pace over the last couple of decades. New technological innovations ensure that the old models get obsolete quite quickly in this market.
There are several companies which sell only secondhand electronic keyboards, but with a warranty. If you try hard, there is every possibility that you can get a good deal. However, if you can afford a new one, that is the best option. And do not forget that with advent of Chinese electronic equipment in the market, an electronic keyboard has become an affordable item for most people.

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Most electronic keyboards also have a socket at the back, into which a foot switch can be plugged. These are often called "sustain pedals" by keyboardists, as their most common function is to simulate the sustain pedal on a piano by turning on and off the MIDI control which adds sustain to a note. However, since they are also simple MIDI devices, foot switches can usually be configured to turn on and off any MIDI control, such as turning of one of the DSP effects, or the auto-harmony.