Training in hand composition should be a prerequisite for machine keyboard operation.
When the keyboard operator sees that another word or syllable can not go into the line the keys indicating the width of the spaces to fill the line are struck, the result being that all spaces are spread equally to fill the line.
This is a sort of keyboard with pedals played by hand and foot, fashioned like a rude piano.
When a manuscript goes to the press to be set up in this way, the copy is given to the keyboard operator who sets it up on a machine which looks much like a typewriter.
In one of the best of them the operator sits before a keyboard much like that of a typewriter.
The touch of the keyboard was something like that of a harpsichord, the keys jumping up and down with a little jerk; and when the instrument went out of tune it was a serious matter.
If you are going to play a scale, place your hand in readiness on the keyboard in the same position as you would if you were going to write a letter--or to take a pinch of snuff.
Plying the keyboard mechanically, Anne listened, shaken to the very marrow.
On such occasions he would preface the performance by striking the keys with the palm of his hand, or draw his finger along the keyboard from end to end, roaring with laughter, and in other ways behave like a spoiled child.
Dismayed by this reflection, he took his hands from the keyboard and, turning to Mozart, said, 'Will you give me a theme on which to extemporise?
The keyboard was then covered with a cloth, so as to conceal the notes, but Wolfgang played just as finely as before, receiving for this crowning feat the loud applause of the company.
Leopold also gave out as an additional attraction that Wolfgang would play with the keyboard covered--a fact which shows that the Emperor's test had not been forgotten.
All keyboard instruments in ordinary use produce tones that are only approximately correct in pitch, because these must be limited in number to twelve, to the octave, while the tones of the violin are absolute or untempered.
MacDowell has, for many of us, done the right thing by filling in their implied harmonies and otherwise bringing out their qualities, so that they may be done justice under present-day keyboard conditions.
It is curious that MacDowell's sonatas are infrequently performed, for they bring the resources of the modern pianoforte into full and sonorous play, sweeping the whole of the keyboard with their stirring expressions.
He should practice slowly and carefully at the keyboard until he is convinced that his arm is at all times relaxed.
Any one can move the fingers up and down with great rapidity; no study of the pianoforte keyboard is necessary to do this.
To them the piano keyboard is a kind of gymnasium attached to a musical instrument.
Some students sit down before the keyboard to 'play' the piano precisely as though they were going to play a game of cards.
All of us have arms, fingers, muscles and nerves, but what we have to say upon the keyboard should be an expression of our own minds, not a replica of some stereotyped model.
Touch, as I have previously said, all comes down to the question of the degree of weight applied to the keyboard and the degree of quickness with which it is applied.
Unfortunately, our system of musical symbols and the keyboard itself are very complex.
If you think it right, and your aim at the keyboard is good, you are not likely to hit the wrong notes, even in skips such as one finds in the Rubinstein Valse in E flat.
Nevertheless, he sat at the piano keyboard and played tremendously difficult compositions by Liszt and Brahms--compositions which compelled his hands to leap from one part of the keyboard to the other as in the case of the Liszt Campanella.
Disqualified long ago from walking, to-day David Verne could hardly raise his hands to lay them limply upon the keyboard of a piano.
His sensitive face, disfigured by his sufferings and his thoughts, leaned forward; his eyes were fixed on the keyboard of the piano.
Every touch of a letter on the keyboard of the typewriter upstairs registered its exact duplicate on this infernal contrivance down here, and fast as it was recorded, that vixen wired it on to Boris Borovonski.
He never looked up from the keyboard that he did not encounter her ironical gaze.
With them he sang, thundered, and thought upon thekeyboard of his grand piano-forte.
Not even a dumb keyboardwas allowed, and I practised the Jackson finger exercises in the air and thus kept my fingers limber.
I played all the Chopin, Henselt, and Liszt études on the miserable keyboard of the organ.
But he played, played furiously, and he smote the keyboard as if he hated it.
The emotion of the moment was one of triumph mixed with curiosity; his sensitive face a keyboardover which his feelings swept the octave.
He sat at the piano and over its keyboard his long, ghost-like fingers moved with febrile velocity.
Chopin again, and curious to know who possessed such a touch at Coney Island, the friends found a table to the right of the keyboard and sat down.
Two forms of instruments were at length developed, composed of a wire-strung psaltery, played from a chromatic keyboard like that of the organ.
They even make us feel at moments as though in them had been realized the definitive pianistic style, that the hour of transition to the new keyboard of quarter tones was nigh.
And Scriabine, the barbarian and romanticist, is even more free of the hues of the keyboard than they, the Latins, the classicists.
He did not run, he did not glance behind, he made no sound.
One step the white-skinned man took forward; a step toward the girl.
Whether or no she loved him, as she believed in God she trusted in that motionless, dominant human by her side.
Back from the land of nothingness they came--and again no one was at hand to welcome their return.
Hipkins's lectures and recitals on keyboard instruments in London, Oxford and Cambridge; and Arnold Dolmetsch reintroduced the art of making clavichords in 1894.
A slow, lingering grin exposed his set of big white teeth: they gleamed evenly in the shade of the awning like the keyboard of a piano in a dusky room.
The full-fledged pianist of to-day thinks he is quite able to do the work of two, and sees no reason why he should share the keyboard with another; so he prefers to keep the whole function in his own hands.
The little dumb keyboard I have already mentioned in the first of these pages; it had five notes over which he would mechanically run his fingers.
A harmonic keyboard for violins has been patented by Mr. James F.
No; for it fades to give place to others, as now there is visible Jared's patient lined old face poring over music-book and keyboard by the light of one feeble candle which seems to shed a halo round his quaint old head.
That reflector Jared took down himself from over the keyboard of the organ, and old Purkis bore it into the damp vestry, where in course of time its reflective power became almost nil.
Her fingers moved rapidly over thekeyboard and the story seemed to write itself.
Tom rose from his chair before the Linotype keyboard and came into the editorial office.
Ah, but few know what a hateful place it is to Hilary Vane to-day, this keyboard at which he has sat so complacently in years gone by, the envied of conventions.
