Editing Electronic keyboard (section)

==Terminology==
[[File:Casio CTK-530 Portable Keyboard.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Casio CTK-530, an early-1990s electronic keyboard with [[PCM]] sound technology.]]
An electronic keyboard may also be called a '''digital keyboard''', or '''home keyboard''', the latter often refers to less advanced or inexpensive models intended for beginners. The obscure term "portable organ" was widely used in [[Asia]]n countries to refer to electronic keyboards in the 1990s, due to the similar features between electronic keyboards and [[electric organ#Home organ|electronic home organs]], the latter of which were popular in the late 20th century.

In [[Russia]], [[Belarus]] and [[Ukraine]], most types of electronic keyboards (including [[digital piano]]s and [[stage piano]]s) were simply often referred to as a "[[synthesizer]]" ([[Russian language|Russian]]: синтезатор, ''sintezator''), usually with no other term to distinguish them from actual digital synthesizers.

The term ''electronic keyboard'' may also be used to refer to a synthesizer or digital piano in colloquial usage