Word: keyboarding
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...attic above me, an animal has died. A carrion smell seeps through the ceiling. A squirrel, maybe. A raccoon? For a week, I heard something scuttling up there - as if to answer the clicking of my computer keyboard. I was amused to think the animals were weighing in with a contrary point of view. I assumed that a creature that had found its way into the attic would find its way out. Then the scuttling stopped, and in a day or two, the dead smell began. I must go up through the trap door in the ceiling in the hall...
...drenched in milky-white plastic. This is not a bad thing. The newcomer is 1.3 in. thick--a mere 0.3 in. deeper than the titanium model, yet has shed about 2 in. in length (meaning you can almost hide it under an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper). Its keyboard is still full-size, however, and the plastic-rubbery covering should scratch and stain even less than titanium...
...Discovery, which was the first successful attempt at retrieving satellites from orbit. DIED. ISAAC ("IKE") COLE, 73, jazz pianist and composer and brother of the late Nat ("King") Cole; in Sun Lakes, Arizona. Cole, who once considered changing his name to differentiate himself from his more famous brother, played keyboard on Unforgettable, the Grammy-winning 1992 tribute album by Nat's daughter Natalie Cole...
...point taping his hands to stay the blisters for a while. “Bury Me,” which incorporated bits of the “Beverly Hills Cop” theme and Van Halen’s “Jump” from Miller on the keyboard, featured Rosenworcel’s flashiest playing of the evening...
...jazz community. His playing is an incomparable mixture of Cuban and North American impulses. Trueba reels in close on his mammoth hands, as they span octaves and meld with the piano's keys in ponderous strokes. Trueba then cuts to a low angle shot down the length of the keyboard as Chucho's hands leap tarantula-like over one another in a frenetic flurry of shaking intensity. His long, hound-dog face remains neutral, almost sullen, (ironically so) in the face of the energy put into his playing. Chucho then settles down again into his previous mode, with...