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Mayhew now has hit upon the " Bubble Piano." This is a box with a keyboard which is placed over the piano keyboard.* You press the keys of the box, one after another, and the instrument strikes the proper keys on the piano, plays a melody. You press the first key of the attachment and it strikes a D, say, on the piano. You press the second key, and it strikes say an F sharp on the piano. The third key may strike B, the fourth a G sharp. By striking the keys on the attachment one after another...
...learning piano-playing by placing over the keys a paper diagram marked with the names of the keys. " Learn to play the piano in a week! Be popular and surprise your friends ! " In this way, though, the player has to skip from one interval to another as on the keyboard itself, while with the Bubble Piano he strikes one key after another in regular succession...
...phrase ended, with a brief pause before the next began, and in the pause the little man raised his hands from the keyboard and beat time as though he were conducting a band, and grinned at the audience. And everybody giggled...
...There you have the essential keyboard of Cooper's soul...
...scholarly inclined may link this account of genesis with many stories of how other pieces of music were composed. There is, for instance, the Fuga del Gatto of Scarlatti. One day the composer heard a strange series of piano notes. His cat had scampered across the keyboard. The notes were firm in his memory, and he used them as the melody, the theme for a highly learned and intricate composition, a fugue...