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Keyboard

noun

Device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like.

Holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung.

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"Keyboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... night of spring, one was calling to its mate. The Commandant heard it, and struck its note on the upper keyboard. ...

— Young Hilda at the Wars • Arthur Gleason

... to that," said Mr. May, "I can accompany some of them myself, when I'm not operating the film. I'm not an expert pianist—but I can play a little, you know—" And he trilled his fingers up and down an imaginary keyboard in front of Alvina, cocking his eye at ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... sounds, thoraxes, catguts, wire, wood, and brass? Consecutive-fifths are as harmless as blue laws compared with the relentless tyranny of the "media." The instrument!—there is the perennial difficulty—there is music's limitations. Why must the scarecrow of the keyboard—the tyrant in terms of the mechanism (be it Caruso or a Jew's-harp) stare into every measure? Is it the composer's fault that man has only ten fingers? Why can't a musical thought be presented as it is born—perchance "a bastard ...

— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... "My education may be modern, on the whole; but it hasn't neglected the classics completely! Gentlemen forward!" she said, with a sudden cry, which sent Mrs. Bates's fingers back to the keyboard; "gentlemen forward to Mister Tucker!" Mrs. Bates pounded loudly, and Jane pirouetted up ...

— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... applied for a position as operator with the Western Union. He had to wait a few days, and during this time he seized the opportunity to study the indicators and the complicated general transmitter in the office, controlled from the keyboard of the operator on the floor of the Gold Exchange. What happened next has been the basis of many inaccurate stories, but is dramatic enough as told in Mr. Edison's own version: "On the third day of my arrival and while sitting in the office, the complicated general instrument ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

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