How do piano keyboards know how hard you are pressing down?

On most electric pianos / keyboards, that feature is called touch response. The individual keys are fitted with pairs of tiny transponders that actives each time you press the key. read more

I’ll assume this is about electronic keyboards. The mechanism is called velocity sensitivity, and it uses two sensors underneath the keys which are a few millimeters apart. read more

If you treat the piano as a percussion instrument – it will sound like one! If you think that the keyboard is a rigid surface – it will mirror your attitude, producing a rigid, short and ugly sound! Don’t hit the piano key – press it instead as if diving gradually into an elastic surface. read more