What Is the Difference Between Piano and Keyboard?

A piano is like a big keyboard, but it has more keys and makes louder sounds.

Imagine you have two toy boxes. One box has just 25 small blocks, that’s like a keyboard. The other box has 88 bigger blocks, that’s like a piano. Both can play music, but the piano has many more notes to choose from.

• A keyboard is smaller and usually used for practice or when you want quiet sounds.
• A piano is bigger, and it makes louder, richer sounds that fill a room, like when your favorite song plays at the party.

Also, a piano has real strings inside that vibrate to make music. A keyboard uses buttons that send signals to speakers or headphones. It’s like the difference between plucking a guitar string and pressing a button on a phone, both make sound, but in different ways.

So, whether it's a small keyboard or a big piano, they're both fun tools for making music!