Keys [noun]

Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.

She sat perfectly still before the piano, not touching the keys, while Robert carried her message to Edna at the window.

Tony's stool was nearer to the bass keys of the piano, while the sofa Lettice lay upon had certainly been drawn up towards him.

The keyboard had eleven, twelve, even thirteen keys in diatonic succession without semitones.

The pallets were connected to the keys by a series of levers, known as the tracker action.

The pedal keys were almost invariably straight and the pedal boards flat.

It is thoroughly reliable and, where the keys are located close by the organ, is fairly prompt both in attack and repetition.

No tubular-pneumatic action is entirely satisfactory when the distance between the keys and the organ is great.

Figs. 10 and 11, hybrids, the tilting tablet form of stop-keys being used for the couplers only.

Hope-Jones, however, is generally credited with introducing the first practical stop-keys.