This may not be a viable option for you - but I get to visit metal recyclers
periodically, and they have Pallets - mountains of them - filled with discarded
keyboards, etc.   If you have a local recycler anywhere, you could grab 10 of
them for what they get for scrap, which isn't much because it's mostly plastic.

If you deal with hardware, they're a great place to visit, since they have
unbelievable quantities of "old" computers, hard drives, memory, USB devices,
keyboards, monitors, cell phones and batteries, cables - you name it.  And you
buy it by the ... SHIFT-3.

With regard to keys and keyboard layouts, I had a minor struggle with getting
the right keyboard setup on a Raspberry Pi recently, but doing enough research
finally ironed that all out.

I have a Dell SK-8135 that I picked out of a scrap heap - it had some dirt and a
few sticky keys, but it works flawlessly.  The integral volume knob only works
on my MS Surface in one direction - which is apparently an issue with this
keyboard and many OSs.   [Note the stylistic correctness of my omission of the
apostrophe.]

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