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Ivory has been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making a range of items from ivory carvings to false teeth, piano keys, fans, and dominoes. [9] Elephant ivory is the most important source, but ivory from mammoth , walrus , hippopotamus , sperm whale , orca , narwhal and warthog are used as well.
Because these keys receive less wear, they are often made of black colored wood and called the black notes or black keys. Black keys form a pentatonic scale. The entire pattern repeats at the interval of an octave. The arrangement of longer keys for C major with intervening, shorter keys for the intermediate semitones date to the 15th century.
Even old blue jeans can have collector's value, if you have the right pair. Levi's 501 jeans were first introduced in 1954, and a mint-condition pair of those first-edition 501 jeans can sell for ...
Keys of a Steinway grand piano. Steinway keys are made of Bavarian spruce. [157] The surface of the white keys is made of polymer; earlier, they had been made of elephant ivory. Around the 1950s, Steinway switched from using ivory, [158] and some years later use of ivory for piano keys was outlawed. [159]
Keys Key size Preset Tones Polyphony (notes) Batteries MIDI Notes References Velocity Aftertouch; Casiotone 101 1981 49 full 25 8 - Voices only (no rhythm section). Sustain and vibrato effects only. Four tones of choice can be stored for press-button access. [1] Casiotone 201 1980 49 full 29 8 - Vibrato, sustain effects and tape echo to/from ...
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The keys were typically made from brightly colored plastic in the shape of animals, although some zoos issued the keys in non-animal shapes. The first generation of keys were in the shape of an elephant, with the trunk being the blade of the key. This was commonly known as "Trunkey the Elephant" (sometimes spelled Trunky). [1]
The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ invented in the third century BC. [2] The keys were likely balanced and could be played with a light touch, as is clear from the reference in a Latin poem by Claudian (late 4th century), who says magna levi detrudens murmura tactu . . . intonet, that is "let him thunder forth as he presses out mighty ...