Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style is such an integral part of the music he has written that few jazz pianists have much luck with even the Monk tunes that have become part of the standard jazz repertory. Monk himself plays with deliberate incaution, attacking the piano as if it were a carillon's keyboard or a finely tuned set of 88 drums. The array of sounds he divines from his Baldwin grand are beyond the reach of academic pianists; he caresses a note with the tremble of a bejeweled finger, then stomps it into its grave with a crash of elbow and forearm aimed...
...Chairman of the Faculty Committee on the Computing Center. Frank A. Engle, Jr., Manager of the Center, said yesterday, however, that a complete time sharing system might not meet the University's needs of the limited amount of information that can be fed to a computer through a teletype keyboard...
...talk about what's new in bell ringing. Last week at the Washington Cathedral's inaugural recital on its new $250,000, 53-bell carillon, it was obvious that the church fathers knew just whom to hire to handle their heroic instru ment. The man at the keyboard was Guild President Ronald Barnes...
...requires striking rounded oak keys with clenched fists while pumping on the foot pedals-yet tone is controlled by variations in touch, just as on a piano. In his octagonal playing cabin inside the 301-ft. Washington tower, Barnes is surrounded by bells on all sides, and the broad keyboard confronts him like a firing squad's rifles. Each carillon is unique, and because the 12-ton, E-flat bourdon bell in the Washington carillon is heavier and therefore deeper in pitch than its counterpart in Kansas, Barnes must rescore all his music a major third higher to suit...
...august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed to show up, found his mind tuned to an "inner state of balance"-whatever that is. "The experience," he wrote after he recovered, "is dreamlike, and the pianist tries to resist waking...