Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television somehow becomes small, sadly romantic and nicely sexy. Her songs (the blues in Blues by Bargy refer more to her voice than her repertory) are plaintive ballads; her delivery and pace are a restful contrast to TV's frequently scratchy and perfervid fare, her touch on the keyboard deft, efficient and unobtrusive...
...Graphotype has a standard typewriter keyboard, and letters can be punched directly onto a metal plate heavy enough to stand up under the pressure of the stereotype machine that makes the "mats" or molds for the lead plates for the presses. This saves time by eliminating photoengraving used by Vari-Type...
Basic Piano, instituted three years ago, pushed tutorial out of the field except for senior honors candidates. It is required for all men unless they can demonstrate sufficient keyboard technique at the start to satisfy Assistant Professor Fine, who is in charge of the program...
Between numbers, in a Los Angeles cafe called Omar's Dome, a Negro pianist mused over his keyboard. A phrase had strayed into his mind, and he was trying to fit a melody to it. Suddenly, "it came to me just as straight as could be." Pianist Harvey O. Brooks hummed his tune all the way home, wrote it out in 20 minutes. Then he put it away in a drawer...
Little Mr. Big started the proceedings by reading "Christmas Greetings to the President." He muffed his first try, and blamed it on the blondes present. The singers banked themselves once more behind the keyboard, the control room buzzed for silence and this time Jimmy read his little speech without a slip. Then the stars from the Met, helped out by pop singers Perry Como and Fran Warren, did their little turn...