If your keyboard is not touch sensitive, you don't have a piano. Digital pianos attempt, with widely varying degrees of success, to duplicate the sound and experience of playing acoustic pianos. When a key is struck more rapidly, the volume of the sound in an acoustic piano increases. With a lightly struck key, the sound can be extremely soft. The variability of volume or sound intensity in digital pianos is possible because of touch sensitive keyboards.
This is not the same as 'weighted' keyboard. A weighted keyboard is an attempt to duplicate the tactile experience of depressing the keys of an acoustic piano. You can have touch sensitive keyboards that feel more like they are controlled by springs; this is not acceptable to most experienced piano players.
In many people's opinions Yamaha pianos are known for their light touch. Some electric pianos are not touch sensitive and you can adjust the key sensitivity to your liking.
I have a Yamaha YPR-7. It has touch sensitive keys, meaning the volume increases as you press the keys faster. The keys are not weighted, nor are they action sensitive (there is no "bang" sound when you hit the keys hard, just an increase in volume). I would recommend this piano for a child or teenager that just wants to be able to mess around on a keyboard on their own. Myself, I am upgrading to the Roland FP-7F, a very different beast.
Piano and Keyboard
A keyboard is electric A piano is non electric
A standard keyboard has 104 keys, while a piano typically has 88 keys.
A virtual keyboard differs from a touch typing keyboard because a virtual keyboard is on touch sensitive screen (like on the iphone) rather a hardware keyboard that some people prefer.
Yes, it is!
A Touchpad
The Kindle keyboard is better IMHO. The keyboard version has tactile buttons - instead of a touch-sensitive screen.
It's simply called a "touch pad."
In many people's opinions Yamaha pianos are known for their light touch. Some electric pianos are not touch sensitive and you can adjust the key sensitivity to your liking.
I have a Yamaha YPR-7. It has touch sensitive keys, meaning the volume increases as you press the keys faster. The keys are not weighted, nor are they action sensitive (there is no "bang" sound when you hit the keys hard, just an increase in volume). I would recommend this piano for a child or teenager that just wants to be able to mess around on a keyboard on their own. Myself, I am upgrading to the Roland FP-7F, a very different beast.
The dell studio has 3 volume touch-sensitive buttons above the keyboard, which you can use to change the volume.
Piano and Keyboard
A piano has a keyboard. But is doesn't look like the keyboard on your computer.
Electric keyboard usually refers to the keyboard of an electric piano. "Keyboard" is a generic word that can refer to an electric piano, an acoustic piano, a typerwriter keyboard, a computer keyboard, etc.
The difference between an electronic organ and an electronic piano is in the sounds produced. Sometimes, on the higher end models, the electronic piano will have a piano touch, weighted keyboard.