Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1870s, when pianists had long hair and belabored the keyboard thunderously in the "grand manner," many of the world's promising pianists were still taking lessons from long-haired Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt. Of Liszt's pupils today, only a few white-haired oldsters survive. Of these survivors only one can still draw a crowd to a concert hall; a stocky, orange-whiskered veteran named Moriz Rosenthal...
...Carnegie Hall, bowed curtly before a tornado of applause, then pounced upon the opening measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists half his age, still held his place among the world's top pianists...
...supplementary keyboard is a strip of flexible material, played by depressing it with the thumb and forefinger, the pressure determining the volume. The Krakauer creation, using piano strings for its fundamental tones, has no sounding board and (like the Hammond) imitates other instruments, or invents new tone colors, by electrically mixed overtones. By pushing the proper combination of its ten buttons, it can even be made to sound like a plain piano. It contains a radio and phonograph. Price...
...Hammond Electric Organ, first marketed three years ago, is no larger than a piano, has no reeds or pipes. Pressing a key on the Hammond keyboard generates a minute electric current with an oscillation frequency corresponding to the pitch of the desired note. The current is relayed into a reproduction cabinet where it becomes a musical tone...
...piano accordion sales took second place only to piano sales, accounted for $19,000,000 worth of business. There are at least 400,000 piano accordion players in the U. S. Their instrument, a more complicated and efficient descendant of the old-fashioned concertina, is really a small piano keyboard grafted on to an accordion...