Before the mouse became relevant in server switching applications, Keyboard Video Switch ( KVS ) was used to describe keyboard and monitor switching devices.

Two keyboard versions became available ; the E4K and the e-Synth Keyboard.

The indicator light is also sometimes used in certain applications, as well as Keyboard Layout Indicator in some Linux distributions ( like Ubuntu ) because doing so is less likely to cause problems than manipulating other keys / lights.

Keyboard amplifiers often have a simple onboard mixer with multiple inputs, so that keyboardists can control the tone and level of several keyboards.

DeYoung recounted to Contemporary Keyboard magazine for the January 1981 issue that the first time he ever played acoustic piano was when the band arrived at the recording studio to record " Lady " and saw the piano in the studio ; DeYoung had written the song on an electric piano, but decided to try it out on the piano instead, and liked the sound so much that he switched to the piano for the recorded version.

Keyboard player John Beck from Whitehaven joined the group later in 1982, and for a short period of time It Bites also featured saxophonist Howard " H " Smith, a period in which the band worked playing gigs at nightclubs around Cumbria.

Mattel said that the Keyboard Component was a real product still being test-marketed and even released a small number of Keyboard Components to a handful of retail stores, along with a handful of software titles in order to support this claim.

Several of the units were later used by Mattel Electronics engineers when it was discovered that, with a few minor modifications, a Keyboard Component could be used as an Intellivision software-development system in place of the original hand-built development boards.

Today, very few of them still exist ; when the Keyboard Component was officially canceled, part of Mattel's settlement with the FTC involved offering to buy back all of the existing Keyboard Components from dissatisfied customers.

After performing in various projects during the 1980s, he gained international attention in 1994 when he was voted " Best New Talent " in the Keyboard Magazine readers ' poll after the release of his Listen solo album.

For example, for the 1984 IBM PC / AT code 1D is issued when about to Determine Memory Size Above 1024K, and code 2D in the event of 8042 Keyboard Controller Failure, 105 System Error.

" Keyboard Benmont Tench ( of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ) and bassist Sebastian Steinberg ( formerly of Soul Coughing ) are regular participants and other guest musicians from the Largo family generally show up as well, including Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Don Heffington, Greg Leisz, and former Nickel Creek bandmate Chris Thile when he is in town.

In a 1979 issue of Keyboard magazine, the constant frustrated question of when and where can musicians get a Birotron?

Her first performance with an orchestra was at the age of nine when she recorded Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor for Radio Moscow with conductor Aram Khachaturian.

In an issue of Keyboard Magazine, Ray Charles, when asked about his favorite pianist was quoted as saying, " Art Tatum could play anything he wanted to.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Keyboard macros have in more recent times come to life as a method of exploiting the economy of massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) s. By tirelessly performing a boring, repetitive, but low risk action, a player running a macro can earn a large amount of the game's currency or resources.

His monthly column, " Session Sensei " appeared in Keyboard Magazine for over five years and provided real world advice on performing, studio work, the music business and professional life in general.

In the fall of 1982, the LUCKI, now renamed the Entertainment Computer System ( ECS ), was presented at the annual sales meeting, officially ending the ill-fated Keyboard Component project.

The last two years of his life, Tatum regularly played at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, including his final public performance in April 1956.

" Keyboard wedge " hardware plugged between the PC and its normal keyboard, with characters from the barcode scanner appearing exactly as if they had been typed at the keyboard.

Zheng was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of the Keyboard Program at Oakland University in Michigan in fall, 2007.

She was appointed Head of Keyboard at the Royal Academy of Music in November 2010, taking up the role from September 2011.

He had previously won the " Best Lead Synthesist " honor for seven years, at which time he was inducted into the Keyboard Hall of Fame.

* Yorke, James, Keyboard Instruments at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1986.

One " Mickey Lee Soul " ( sic ) is credited as Keyboard tech in the liner notes of Deep Purple's album " Live at the Olympia ' 96 ".

Keyboard player Cian Ciaran the group were worried that " doing a DVD might seem elitist, because only certain people have DVD players and systems, even now " but reasoned that " most people will have DVD playback systems at home within five years.

Remigius Shatas, the founder of Cybex ( a popular peripheral switch manufacturer at that time ) expanded the acronym to Keyboard, Video and Mouse ( KVM ) in 1995.

* Henrik Pedersen Keyboard profile at notjafs. nu

Keyboard keys can also be remapped or disabled, such that pressing the letter q, for example, might result in the computer receiving a letter r, or nothing at all.

In the October 1977 Dominic Milano interview of Keith Emerson in Keyboard Magazine ( at that time called " Contemporary Keyboard Magazine "), and much later on the band's DVD Beyond the Beginning, Emerson said the solo was recorded in one take.

* Grace Fong, Director of Keyboard Studies at Chapman University Conservatory of Music.

Keyboard player Struan Eaglesham also left the band at this time.

Although the X. Org Server supports the correct keyboard ( ro comma ) since at least 2005, selecting this keyboard from the user interface ( e. g. GNOME Keyboard Properties ) has only recently been made possible.

Their opening night in Detroit, Michigan was at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, a jazz club built in the 1930s that has played host to famous musicians including musicians who spanned the genre with artists as diverse as Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt.

Eddie Jefferson was shot and killed at Baker's Keyboard Lounge on May 8, 1979, aged 60.

In 1966 he was appointed Head of Keyboard Studies at the Canberra School of Music, was later Head of Musicology and was Head of Composition Studies.

In mid-1981, Mattel's upper management was becoming concerned that the Keyboard Component division would never be able to produce a sellable product.

Originally slated to be available in 1981, the Keyboard Component was repeatedly delayed as the engineers tried to find ways to overcome the reliability issues and reduce manufacturing costs.

Featured on the cover of the January 1981 issue of Contemporary Keyboard magazine ( a story that was reprinted in Contemporary Keyboards book on the greatest rock keyboardists ), DeYoung described many of his steps along the way through his keyboard-playing career: He'd never played an acoustic piano until the recording session for 1972's " Lady "; he recorded the track for 1979's " Babe " in a friend's basement on a Rhodes electric piano he'd never touched before ; the odd feeling of switching back to playing accordion for the song " Boat On The River " and discovering how small the keys felt to his fingers after years of playing electric organs and pianos.

* Geography Challenge ( 1981 ) — an educational title for the ill-fated Intellivision Keyboard component.