Patent ID: 7968788

Claim:
An electronic keyboard instrument comprising: an instrument main body; a keyboard extending along a key-arrangement direction mounted to the instrument main body, the keyboard having a key-depression portion; a music stand device having a musical score plate mounted to the instrument main body and disposed at a location rearward of the key-depression portion, the musical score plate being movable between an upright-use position and a stow position; a soundboard mounted to the instrument main body and disposed below the musical score plate in the stow position and faces the musical score plate in the stow position; a vibration unit mounted to the soundboard for vibrating the soundboard in accordance with a supplied musical tone signal to thereby produce sound; and a musical tone signal supply unit that supplies the musical tone signal to the vibration unit, wherein the vibration unit is disposed without overlapping with the musical score plate in the stow position along the key-arrangement direction of the keyboard.