Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Little's stunt is playing the piano in a blithe, easy fashion. Cheer dominates his programs but not so blatantly as it does most of radio's early morning offerings. He lets his fingers do most of the talking, embroidering tunes all over the keyboard, breaking rhythms, holding them steady. Like most radio headliners, his voice is so small that he has to use an amplifier when he sings on the stage. But he can put a song over in what he calls an "intimate parlor baritone," and in many a parlor he hires himself...
...also interested to know something about the sliding keyboard and what is meant by the effect of playing another key. The piano as you know is an instrument on which, due to its construction and temperament, there is no difference between the effect of keys other than that ot pitch...
...Harry Warren, "Charmaine" with Erno Rapee, "Body & Soul" with Johnnie Green, "I'll See You Again" with Noel Coward, "My Song" with Ray Henderson, "Of Thee I Sing" with George Gershwin, "Old Man River" with Jerome Kern. Through it all little Irving Berlin was flying all over his keyboard with the most elaborate gestures. But people sitting near him could see that he was playing in cinema fashion, not touching the keys. When his turn came to solo, his colleagues started to snicker. Red as an apple he went to the front, started to play "Alexander's Ragtime...
...lady-pupil demonstrated the dance floor, gingerly moved her arms and head to "play" the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. Theremin's pupils performed individually, on space-controlled instruments which have a tone-quality something like a cello's, and on keyboard instruments which are in principle the same but sound more like woodwinds. Finally the pupils performed altogether, sounded not unlike a group of children, a little uncertain as to pitch, blowing on combs and tissue paper...
...dozen publishers' representatives crowded around a linotype machine in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer plant one day last week. No operator sat at the keyboard which was covered by a boxlike apparatus. Into a slot in the box Inventor Buford L. Green, 25 years an Observer employe, fed a sheet of copy typed on translucent paper. Then he turned a switch. To the wonderment of onlookers, the lintoype proceeded to set a galley of accurate type...