Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found to be in perfect harmony with a 53-bell carillon which will soon ring from the Canadian houses of Parliament at Ottawa. The St. Chrysostom bells will be operated by electro-pneumatic machinery and can be played by telegraph from a distance of 3,000 miles. The keyboard has a touch as delicate as a piano...
...court of Louis XVIII that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine for a local operatic golddigger. Asked his opinion, Liszt silently laid his hands on the keyboard and, beginning with the unique tremolo in the bass, played his beloved Sonata in A flat. Victor Halvéy, French poet, writes that until then he had never understood Weber's music, which now brought tears to his eyes and silence to his former sneers...
...looked out of caverns that fatigue had carved in his sombre face, struck up "Maryland, My Maryland." The chords strode across a half-empty Armory, coming faintly to the ears of a far younger musician, who sat in a chair thickly padded with blankets and thumped dully at another keyboard. These two-Professor Camillo Baucia, "champion marathon pianist of Europe," and B. G. Burt of Jamestown, N. Y., U. S. champion-had been playing continuously for over 52 hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only 500 people remained in the hall; still...
...claimed for his invention that it makes possible greater sonority, more lasting tone, alteration in the quality of the tone after it has been struck (TIME, Aug. 31). No wonder the assembly stared as Pianist Donahue, supported by Conductor Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, sank his fingers into the keyboard. They heard Rachmaninov's dense symphonic thunders rendered to the last chord, and they shook their heads. Definitely, it was a disappointment. There had been moments-in the adagio, in the arpeggiated chords of the cadenza-when the sustaining power of the instrument was evident. For the rest they...
Gillet & Johnson, bell founders, had cast the great carillon in Croyden, England, to the order of Mr. Rockefeller, who designed it as a memorial to his mother, There is no tawdry arrangement for electrical ringing. The carilloneur must strike every note by a pull on the keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world...