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Instead, several pieces are based on the Lydian scale (play it on your white piano keys from F to F).
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To achieve this, the pads essentially become piano keys, the arrangement of which can be heavily configured to your preference.
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You and your friends can simultaneously type on it, fingerpaint, play on digital piano keys, call up YouTube videos and Flickr images and zoom in on and rotate a map of the world.
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Dishman incorporated two tests that measure the strength of a patient's speech with a recording chip, and three others--a peg board, two piano keys and videogame-type buttons--that measure reaction time and speed of movement.
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Piano keys each have three strings that, when struck by a felt-covered hammer, make a musical sound. (The exceptions are the bass keys, which have either two strings or one.) Pressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so only two of the three strings are touched, giving the piano a much softer tone.
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That MP3 file tells the piano what keys to play, and how hard the keys should be played, depending on the style of the artist who recorded the piece.
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He performs on a 1927 Wurlitzer upright piano that has only 61 keys (red keys, in case you were wondering), designed for train cars and bars.
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Their system would hop between 88 different frequencies, the number of keys on a modern piano.
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At the American Music Awards, she set her piano on fire and belted out a heart-wrenching ballad while smashing wine bottles on the keys.
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Dissatisfied with the piano maker's efforts, and being an inventor as well as a musician, in 1940 he designed and patented an "accelerated action, " in which the keys are lighter to the touch and return even more quickly than on a standard piano.
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