Except for the wine waiter in a restaurant -- always an inscrutable plenipotentiary unto himself, the genii with the keys to unlock the gates of the wine world are one's dealer, and the foreign shipper or negociant who in turn supplies him.

She opened it an inch and poked out the keys for me to give you.

The better part of gallantry might be, perhaps, to honor her perennial good looks and her gorgeous rainbow-hued gown, and to chide the orchestra for not playing in the same keys in which she had chosen to sing.

* 10 cycles of repetition for 128 bit keys.

* 12 cycles of repetition for 192 bit keys.

* 14 cycles of repetition for 256 bit keys.

AES has 10 rounds for 128-bit keys, 12 rounds for 192-bit keys, and 14 rounds for 256-bit keys.

By 2006, the best known attacks were on 7 rounds for 128-bit keys, 8 rounds for 192-bit keys, and 9 rounds for 256-bit keys.

The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

Since the cars were replaced every week, if a champion's reign managed to straddle weeks without having won a car, the lowest valued cars for the new week were eliminated from consideration for the champion depending on how many prior attempts were made and they were then given a choice of keys from the remaining cars.

The player can then play chords by using his remaining fingers to press additional keys, and thus, sound additional notes.

The operator's right hand strokes the remaining keys on the entire keyboard.

Of course, Beale could have used a document that he had written himself for either or both of the remaining keys, thus rendering any further attempts to crack the codes useless.

Typing speed is typically determined by how slow these weak keys are typed rather than how fast the remaining keys are typed.

She retrieves his boat keys, and they take the remaining bus to the marina.

Now at least 2n / 3 − n / 3 = n / 3 of the remaining keys are not corrupted, so each must be larger than every element we removed.

During this period, until the collapse of France in June 1940, ultimately 83 percent of the Enigma keys that were found, were solved at Bletchley Park, the remaining 17 percent at PC Bruno.

On 9 February 1662, Frederick Coyett handed over the keys to the fort and led the remaining Dutch forces and civilians back to Batavia by sea, ending 38 years of Dutch colonial rule on Taiwan.

Having realised what happened, the remaining DOC officer and one of the students ran back to the start of the track for help, but on arriving they found that the keys were not in the group's vehicles.

Compare to the English concertina where the thumb holds a strap, the little finger is held on a rest, and the remaining three fingers press the keys.

The remaining keys are standard size and each has its own Cherry MX brown key switch, providing a tactile feel, but no click.

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.

In Engelbart's original mapping, he used five keys: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16.

The keyboard had just five piano type keys, operated with two fingers of the left hand and three fingers of the right hand.

The data entry keyboard had five PF keys and two PA keys.

Seven sharps or flats make major keys ( C major and C major ) that may be more conveniently spelled with five flats or sharps ( as D major or B major ).

Harpsichords often extended over five octaves ( 61 + keys ) in the 18th century, while most pianos manufactured since about 1870 have 88 keys.

" The emphasis on these eight notes would continue for a few centuries after the " seven and five " system was adopted, in the form of the short octave: the eight aforementioned notes were arranged at the leftmost side of the keyboard, compressed in the keys between E and C ( at the time, accidentals that low were very uncommon and thus not needed ).

The champion chose one of five keys and then chose the car they thought the key would start.

Each held a key, with five of the celebrities holding keys that would start any one of the five available cars and four holding dud keys that did not start anything.

Of course, even in this case, only a certain number of five letter keys will result in English words.

A regulator uses keys ( five on the tenor and four on both baritone and bass ) to accompany the melody of the chanter ; these keys are arranged in rows to give limited two note " chords ", or, alternatively, single notes for emphasis on phrases or specific notes.

The formal handing over of prison keys to a board of trustees, composed of five members nominated by the society and two by the government, occurred in May 1960.

Pope Pius II wrote a tract in 1453, five years before becoming Pope, to show that, though the Donation was a forgery, the Church owed its lands to Charlemagne and its powers of the keys to Peter ; he did not publish it, however.

The game controls consist of five plastic vertical rectangular keys that are arranged in a zig-zag pattern alike the letter " M " or in vibraphone type arranged.

A turntable is to the right of the five keys, and is turned, or " scratched ".

A further five have remained ' blanks ': assigned serial numbers, but not fitted with keys.

" The replacement keyboard was a small model with 32 keys, not a full typewriter system, and each key was used to enter up to five different characters.

But there are now also types with four or even five rows of keys.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

The violinist and composer Louis Spohr wrote: " In forte passages the poor deaf man pounded on the keys until the strings jangled and in piano he played so softly that whole groups of notes were omitted.

The problem with matrix circuits is that, when several notes are pressed at once, the current can flow backwards through the circuit and trigger " phantom keys " that cause " ghost " notes to play.

The advantage of this " fingered " extension is that the player can adjust the intonation of all of the stopped notes on the extension, and there are no mechanical noises from metal keys and levers.

The modern sophisticated instrument spanning 6½ octaves in virtually all keys was perfected by the 19th-century French maker Sébastien Érard and because of its pedal-driven ability to play all sharps and flats of all notes within its range, it continues today as the standard style of most large professional concert harps.

One version mimics the layout of a piano or mallet instrument, with the natural notes of a C diatonic scale in the lower reed-plate and the sharps / flats in the upper reed-plate in groups of two and three holes with gaps in between like the black keys of a piano ( thus there is no E #/ Fb hole nor a B #/ Cb hole on the upper reed-plate ).

Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.

The longer keys ( for the seven " natural " notes of the C major scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B ) jut forward.

Because these keys were traditionally covered in ivory they are often called the white notes or white keys.

Because these keys receive less wear, they are often made of black colored wood and called the black notes or black keys.

Many keyboard instruments dating from before the nineteenth century, such as harpsichords and pipe organs, have a keyboard with the colours of the keys reversed: the white notes are made of ebony and the black notes are covered with softer white bone.

Some modern pianos have even more notes ( a Bösendorfer 225 has 92 and a Bösendorfer 290 " Imperial " has 97 keys ).

While modern synthesizer keyboards commonly have either 61, 76 or 88 keys, small MIDI controllers are available with 25 notes.

In the larger gaps between the black keys, the width of the natural notes C, D and E differ slightly from the width of keys F, G, A and B.

The tune was originally composed on the Northumbrian smallpipes, which play in D and have the benefit of keys on the chanter to achieve a greater range of notes.