Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babies, she believed, might accomplish much musically if the pattern of the conventional piano keyboard were not meaningless to them. A child begins to discriminate between forms at from 18 to 24 months. Color discrimination comes a little later. Therefore, suggested Dr. McGraw, let piano manufacturers design a keyboard of which each key bears its own circle, square, triangle or little animal, perhaps also its own color...
Finholm Action. The action of a piano is the arrangement of arms and levers which transmits impulse from the keyboard to the hammers on the strings. Instead of manufacturing their own actions, most U. S. piano makers buy them readymade. Biggest action manufacturer is Pratt, Read & Co. in Deep River, Conn. In Chicago last week Pratt, Read & Co. was showing the revolutionary action which it bought from William Finholm after that young inventor had turned down a small offer from Steinway & Sons. The Finholm action, approved by most music men who tried it in Chicago last week, is less complicated...
McIntyre: Watch my fingers fly over the keyboard like a hen pecking up corn...
...pillman, was also making his U. S. debut. Sir Thomas was as athletic a conductor as New Yorkers had ever seen. But young Vladimir Horowitz, with all his stage fright, was a match for the lusty Briton. Horowitz played the Tchaikovsky Concerto with his hands racing all over the keyboard, tossing off trills and smashing out chords as if he were a Rubinstein. Horowitz was 24 then and an instant sensation. But sane critics were chary with their praise for playing that had more flash than meaning...
...piano bench at the age of four. At six she was studying the violin. At twelve she played at local dances in the family quartet. She was the pianist, her brother the first violinist, her mother the second, her father the cellist. When she nodded at the keyboard her father roused her with a tap on the shoulder with his cello bow. Because the family was too poor to buy their music, they borrowed it. And often after playing until midnight 12-year-old Marcelline sat up into the morning to copy the parts by candlelight...