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keyboard and riff
In 2006 the signature keyboard riff from " Smalltown Boy " and part of the vocals from " Why?
The last song on the album, the 7 minute, 47 second-long " 747 ", with a characteristic keyboard riff and a long instrumental outro, became the band's closer for every show for the next 8 years, and won numerous best-song polls on Kent's website.
A broadening ( and darkening ) of lyrical subject matter was shown in the B-side, " Hearts and Crosses ," which told the story of a date rape, with an upbeat keyboard riff providing an ironic counterpoint.
The recording features a conventional rock rhythm section of bass guitar and drums, although the rest of the instruments used are analog synthesizers, principally the Minimoog ( augmenting the song's recognisable bass riff ) and the Polymoog keyboard, providing austere synthetic string lines over the bass riff.
For a few years, a keyboard riff from their song " No Regrets " became the background music for station breaks at WCAD-FM in San Juan.
The title track, which was based on a keyboard riff composed by Tempest as early as 1981-82, was released as the first single and became a worldwide success, peaking at number 1 in 25 countries, such as the UK, France Spain and Germany.
Duffield later explained that the song's distinctive keyboard part had been inspired by a riff from Stevie Wonder's hit " Superstition ".
The song benefits from an insistently ornate keyboard riff and a busy but less-hummable chorus, in which the song builds into a huge drum beat and a synthesiser-heavy chorus, which also includes an upbeat tempo.
In 1985 Levén was the one who suggested that Tempest should write a song based on an old keyboard riff that the vocalist had written around 1981-82.
While reproducing the acoustic riff, the Counting Crows version also adds electric keyboard and guitar instrumentation at about midway through the song.

keyboard and was
All one needed was a keyboard and an inexpensive television set.
The second incarnation was a much smaller unit the width of two 5¼ " floppy drives stacked on top of each other, and the third incarnation looked like a flattened Apple with a built-in keyboard.
The display logic and resulting display ' snow ' was irritating, as was the missing lower case support, the CPU speed could be improved, the quality and layout of the keyboard was bothersome, and the floppy disk capacity and reliability was low.
And was intended for hobbyists, to be sold as a kit consisting of the parts and the PCB's for the computer and attached keyboard.
Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.
One of the most obvious differences was the 5200's lack of a keyboard.
However, as this was essentially just a 65XE computer with a detachable keyboard, it was able to run most of the home computer titles directly.
A keyboard was developed, and the keyboard had an expansion port ( which was the SIO port from Atari's 8-bit computer line, though the 7800 could not run Atari computer programs ) allowed for the addition of peripherals such as disk drives and printers.
Additionally, the keyboard and high score cartridge were canceled, the expansion port was removed from later production runs of the system and, in lieu of new titles, the system was launched with titles intended for the 7800's debut in 1984.
Baudot's original code was adapted to be sent from a manual keyboard, and no teleprinter equipment was ever constructed that used it in its original form.
The code was entered on a keyboard which had just five piano type keys, operated with two fingers of the left hand and three fingers of the right hand.
Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.
An early experimental Chinese keyboard with many keys was developed by researchers of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, but it never came to the mainstream.

keyboard and used
The keyboard included a form of Single-key keyword input, similar to that used on the Sinclair Spectrum, via the ' func ' key.
The BIOS provides a small library of basic input / output functions used to operate and control the peripherals ( such as the keyboard, text display functions and so forth ), and these software library functions are callable by external software.
Image: Keyboard layout Zhuyin. svg | A typical keyboard layout for zhuyin on computers, which can be used as an input method
Image: Keyboard layout Chinese Traditional. png | Chinese ( traditional ) keyboard layout, a US keyboard with Zhuyin, Cangjie and Dayi key labels, which can all be used to input Chinese characters into a computer
A chorded keyboard minus the board, typically designed to be used while held in the hand, is called a keyer.
The first widespread use of a chord keyboard was in the stenotype machine used by court reporters, which was invented in 1868 and is still in use.
In 1874, the five-bit Baudot telegraph code and a matching 5-key chord keyboard was designed to be used with the operator forming the codes manually.
Like many other chorded keyboards, this keyboard can be used with one hand.
The FrogPad is a 20-key chorded keyboard about the size of a numeric keypad that can be used with one hand, and is optimized by character frequency.
Then, depending on whether a laptop or compact or extended keyboard type is used, the shortcut is ++ 5 or + 5 ( numeric keypad ) or ++ i ( laptop ).
With the addition of a pedal clavichord, which included a pedal keyboard for the lower notes, a clavichord could be used to practice organist repertoire.
This keyboard has some very recognisable preset sounds, such as the Pizzagogo sound used on Enya's " Orinoco Flow.
This is useful when combinations of key presses are meaningful, and is sometimes used for passing the status of modifier keys on a keyboard ( such as shift and control ).
The Alberti bass was used by many later composers, and it became an important element in much keyboard music of the Classical music era.
Effects are used during live performances or in the studio, typically with electric guitar, keyboard and bass.
For live shows in 2002 and 2004, Lee and his keyboard technician used the playback capabilities of the XV-5080 to generate virtually all of Rush's keyboard sounds to date, as well as additional complex sound passages that previously required several machines at once to produce.
The punk rock scene of the 1970s produced The Stranglers, whose keyboard player Dave Greenfield used a Hammond on the band's early albums.
If a tuning other than equal temperament is used, the instrument requires retuning once the keyboard is shifted.
It even offered, via an additional AY-3-8910 sound chip inside the ECS module and an optional 49-key Music Synthesizer keyboard, the possibility of turning the Intellivision into a multi-voice synthesizer which could be used to play or learn music.
* Typewriter keyboard, used to enter text onto paper

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