Word: keyboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune. His routines include six chimpanzees and ten singers (the humans are taller), but mostly Kaye depends, as he always has, on his audience, elicits the responses he wants as surely as if he were playing a keyboard instead of rows of strange and private souls...
...hole in a board 20 cm. (7.87 in.) in diameter. The sport got its start at Britain's Derby College of Technology, where the best time was 14 min. 3 sec. Then, at Caltech, members of the Reduction Study Group claimed the piano-demolition championship by crippling a keyboard in 10 min. 44.4 seconds. But records are made to be broken. Last week students at Detroit's Wayne State University reduced an old fraternity piano into kindling...
...Telecredit operator then punches the number on a keyboard, transmitting it to the computer. The computer can handle up to 24 check queries simultaneously, and flashes back its answers on a closed circuit television screen. A warning goes up whenever the driver's license has been reported lost or stolen, and whenever the license holder has been reported for bouncing checks or has tried to pass a suspiciously large number of checks within recent days...
...PORTABLE PIANO. An electronic portable piano built into a case about the size of a two-suiter has been put on the market by the Wurlitzer Co., De Kalb, Ill. Like the Micro-TV, it operates on house current or a battery pack. With a 64-note keyboard, the all-transistor piano can be played via built-in loudspeaker or earphones (for silent practicing), has controls to vary the tone from Hawaiian guitar to vibraphone to glockenspiel. With case, bench, battery pack and earphones, approximate price...
...most notorious compositions is 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds, which requires a pianist to sit in silence at the keyboard for 4 min. 33 sec., staring at a stop watch before he departs the stage without striking a note...