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Keyboard   /kˈibˌɔrd/   Listen
Keyboard

noun
1.
Device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like.
2.
Holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung.



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"Keyboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... it through to the very end, then rose, bowed from where he stood, stared round at the empty hall—a dreadful, strained, defiant smile stiffening upon his face—and sinking back upon his stool, laid his arms across the keyboard with a crash of notes, ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... Mrs. Rivington sat down and touched the keyboard. Then she looked around for silence, and it fell completely. All the eye-witnesses present are agreed that it was in the moment of this pause that the drawing-room door opened, and they heard the butler announce the name of ...
— The Prodigal Father • J. Storer Clouston
... "it's a little machine I got before I came down, with raised letters on the keyboard. If I progress at the rapid pace I have started, I'll be an expert before long. Mrs. Gusty was able to read five words out of ten ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice
... confusion of rhythms, sudden contrasts from an overpowering tutti to the stridulous whirring of empty fifths on the violins, a trill on the flutes, or a dissonant mutter of the basses. The celesta, an instrument with keyboard and bell tone, contributes fascinating effects, and the xylophone is used;—utterances that are lascivious as well as others that are macabre. Dissonance runs riot and frequently carries the imagination away completely captive. The score is unquestionably the greatest ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... eidolons; a cave filled with Platonic phantoms. The phrase of Laforgue has a timbre capable of infinite prolongations in the memory. It is not alone what he says, nor the manner, but his power of arousing overtones from his keyboard. His aesthetic mysticism is allied with a semi-brutal frankness. Feathers fallen from the wings of peri adorn the heads of equivocal persons. Cosmogonies jostle evil farceurs, and the silvery voices of children chant blasphemies. Laforgue could repeat with Arthur ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker


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