The keyboards are on the north side of the chancel, inside the organ case, and can be seen from the "whispering gallery.
Only the keyboards are visible from the auditorium; the instrument is placed on each side of the proscenium, occupying the place of the usual stage boxes, the tone being reflected into the theatre through ornamental case work.
The instance of St. Paul's Cathedral cited above shows the demand that existed at that time for means whereby the organ could be played with the keyboards situated at some distance from the main body of the instrument.
Frequently the less important keyboards would not descend farther than tenor C.
Console, Showing the Inclined Keyboards First Introduced Into This Country by Robert Hope-Jones] We learn from Dr.
Transposing clavicymbals, and clavicymbals with keyboards at both ends were in use.
Some keyboards have a key for each letter, and others one key for several characters.
The case is of mahogany; the wood near the keyboards is walnut, inlaid with tulip-wood and a tesselated border of various coloured woods.
The woodwork about the keyboards is ornamented with designs in marquetry of various coloured woods.
The quills of the jacks belonging to the two keyboards are of different length and thickness.
In an article titled "Transposing Keyboards on Extant Flemish Harpsichords," Sibyl Marcuse[5] discusses surviving examples that show how the second keyboard was arranged.
The keyboards are furnished with rows of knobs, which, on being pressed down by the fingers, open valves admitting the air compressed by the bellows to the free reeds, which are thus set in vibration.
The concertina consists of two hexagonal or rectangular keyboards connected by a long expansible bellows of many folds similar to that of the accordion.
Notation and keyboards are simply symbols of music--cages in which the beautiful bird is caught.
The keys were very wide, those of the upper and middle keyboards measuring four inches from center to center.
The earliest chromatickeyboards known are those in the organ erected at Halberstadt cathedral in 1361.
A "giant grand piano" with three keyboards and pedals and registers, made according to Liszt's own directions.
My monster instrument with three keyboards has also arrived a fortnight ago, and seems to me to be a great success--and on your return I shall pretty nearly have finished my Faust Symphony, at which I am working like a being possessed.
These keyboards with their limited keys responded so easily that a child's fingers were sufficient.
He introduced in France keyboards worthy of the name, and he gave to the higher notes, through his invention of harmonic stops, a brilliancy they had lacked.
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