You generally play a software synth using an external music keyboard plugged into the Mac via some variety of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) hardware device for connecting electronic musical instruments to each other and to computers.

CNN: Create your own music on the Mac

The keyboard is handy for music, too.

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It's the first year Minneapolis-based Target has done a camera card, though it has created MP3 player cards and music-playing keyboard cards in the past.

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The self-described music lover and amateur keyboard player who was once "absolutely terrorized" by a harmony professor at Juilliard's evening division announced the donation at a news conference Tuesday, two days after his 61st birthday.

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The college will also host the five classical music category finals for brass, keyboard, percussion, strings and woodwind.

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Drummer Daryl Warren works in highway maintenance while Chris Spreadbury who plays the keyboard and trombone is, like David, a music teacher.

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In 1971, working with Ralph Simon, a keyboard player in a rival band, he started a new company for music publishing, recording and concert promotion.

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Eldar recently stopped by NPR's Studio 4A to talk to Liane Hansen about his music, his new, self-titled CD... and to rattle the keyboard.

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In his 20s and 30s he attempted to break into the music industry and had some success, securing a contract with a recording company as a singer and keyboard player.

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