who invented the music keyboard?
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Bartolomeo Cristofori of Florence, Italy
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I always thought a piano is a stringed percusion instrument and a keyboard is an electronic representation of a piano which can play different sound???!? I may be wrong though?
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How about the typewriter - which of course eventually led to the keyboard we use today.  You could include discussion of why we use the QWERTY keyboard.
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who invented computer
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This is the closes thing I could find where you could make music using your keyboard.  http://www.songtapper.com/
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A keyboard sequencer is great but not nessisary!Your computer will do just fine,Cake walk pro is a great midi sequencer.Lol I first started sequencing midi files when all we had was an old Atari.Musicians loved it because it had a midi interface built in.on that I used cake walk,it installed from a floppy disk and Dr. T was great as you could really tweak each note,velocity etc.
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Hi there:\n\nThe cell phone keyboard with the typical ABC\nis, as one answerer stated, a clone of the Alexander Graham Bell    configuration put out by Bell Laboratories, many years ago.\nAs someone stated, this crude way of using the numbers to\nget " words" was a memonic aid, so that "ASH 277" would be easier to remember, than all numbers. Since there were only a few phones, by grouping 3 or 4 numbers into a word, meant you only had to remember the last few digits, so " ROCK " would be the first area code for 999 phone numbers, and you just had to remember the last three digits.\n ( more Bell Labs trivia - did you know that the # sign is an octothorpe? This is out of a 1967 RED BOOK handbook for Bell Linemen... since then the name has been lost, and no one knows what it is called anymore, not even computer reference guides....   -- and, Alexander Bell wanted a word to sign in on a phone call CLEARLY, and searched around the world for a sound that was easy to recognize - the best he could find was the call for fishermen in foggy weather, who yelled AH - Looo, which reverberated like a fog horn and helped to prevent two sailing ships from hitting each other - He modified it a bit and invented the word " hello ", which never existed in the English language until he had all his operators use it... )\n  \n As for the QWERTY layout of the keyboard, here is a previous answer that I gave... your question is asked repeatedly on the ANSWER forum...\n\n__________________________________\n\nEarly typewriters were mechanically crude and the swing arms that\nhad the letters on the end moved 6 inches or more from a circle around\nthe center of the page. If two arms reached the same strike slot,\nthey jammed together, often bending the thin swing arms.\n\nA group of Engineers was given a typewriter by Remmington in New York, to design a jam- proof machine. Instead, the Engineers looked at a data base of the most used and least used\nletters of the English alphabet.\nThey put the most used letters on the LEFT hand, since most people are right  handed, and the most used letters on the weakest, least used fingers - note that  the letter "A" is on the baby finger on the left hand. The baby finger on the left hand was designated the weakest, most difficult to use finger, while the letter A is always abound across almost all amounts of actual typing.\nThe ploy worked, and typists who were using the common keyboard of the day, with all the letters in alphabetical order, slowed to an absoute crawl.\nRepairs of jammed keys stopped immediately.\nDVORAK was designed to improve typing, and " reportedly " quadruples the words per minute.\nRAND in England designed a keyboard with two bowls shaped to\nfit the human hand natural swing movements, so that the typist\ndoes not "reach" for top row keys and left and right keys, but\nmoves only the fingers, and unlike the old typewriters, which had\nkeys that would have to be pressed down against huge springs,\nabout one to two INCHES, the RAND keyboard had touch-screen like keys, that have no visible movement at all. The words per minute reach 2000, easily, by anyone with a bit of practice.\nToday, on a typical computer, programmers and general public are considered " good " if they can do 30 or 60 words per minute.\nSecretaries start at 120 words per minute.\nMost of the computer people I know still use two fingers, including\nsome of the fastest and best programmers, following the GIGO rule.\n(( Computers use a stack of memory, which programmers fill and recall with numbers, using either FIFO or FILO, First In, First OUT, or First in, Last Out. All early calculators like the HP65 I use, with RPN ( Reverse Polish Notiation) use FILO ). GIGO is a parody of this terminology, with Garbage In = Garbage Out. ie. Typing in huge amounts of poorly written and poorly tested program code, is not as fast as typing in well written, well tested
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Digital Rhodes, Yahama, Korg just to a few. All thier models are great.:O)
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Bizet. That's the guy who wrote the music for the Opera called Carmen.
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If you buy a USB midi controller, you can play your keyboard directly into MIDI compatible music software, programs such as Cubase. I know of at least one free MIDI compatible application, Anvil Studio, that can display MIDI as musical notation.\n\nBut you do first need a MIDI controller to connect to the computer. You can't use the microphone input - there's no musical context that comes from your keyboard through the mic jack. You must use MIDI.
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i willtry to take a stab at this but don't hate me if i get it wrong. but the earliest know music to be composed was in the mediteranian. Around 27b.c. in greece i believe. they were able to compose musi in modes(like keys) There was the doric mode, phyrgian mode and another one i cannot remember right now. But this is western music. i bet there were earlier civilization that had different methods of making music.
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Chopin. NOT Mozart piano has not invented yet (Harpiscord).
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do u have a keyboard?
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Hello..Anyone from thr pals above are right about it. The PERSON WHO INVENTED COMPUTER FOR THE FIRST TIME . IT IS JOHN ATANASSOV. HE DIED ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN USA AND I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO KNOW ONE OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN!!
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Bach and Handel never played the piano (they died before it was invented).\n\nIt's easier to go to Google, type in the names of the composers you want biographies and bibliographies for and choose what information you need.\n\nIt's impossible to say now who was the better pianist (technically) because there is nobody who has heard them all. They are from different musical eras, so it's hard to compare their compositions to say which is 'best'.\n\nPersonally, I prefer Bach's keyboard music to that of the others but Beethoven is a strong contender.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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I consider the great invention for mankind is the writing and more specifically the alphabet!\nThe inventor of the alphabet was living on the island Crete, south of Athens, north of Egypt, some 4,000 years ago!