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The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.

uble electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

f a stringed instrument against which the fingers press the strings to vary the tone; the keyboard of a piano, organ, etc.; manual. -- Finger bowl or glass, a bowl or glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table. -- Finger flower (Bot.), the foxglove. -- Finger grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum sanguina…

An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.

llows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.

A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.

by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with frequency of alternation of current.

by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

l, larger than the viola, having catgut strings upon, and brass or steel wires under, the keyboard. These, sounding sympathetically with the strings, yield a peculiarly soft and silvery sound. It is now seldom used.