Keyboard
Keyboard may refer to:
Typing
- IBM PC keyboard
- Apple Keyboard
- Chorded keyboard, on which several keys are pressed together to enter a letter or command
Music
- Keyboard instrument, an instrument with a musical keyboard
- Electronic keyboard, a keyboard instrument in which key presses complete an electric circuit
- MIDI keyboard, an electronic keyboard used to send MIDI data to a computer or synthesizer
- Pedal keyboard, a foot-operated keyboard that is placed on the floor
- Keyboardist, a musician who plays keyboard instruments
- Keyboard Magazine, a publication about musical instruments such as the piano
- Electronic keyboard, a keyboard instrument in which key presses complete an electric circuit
Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. 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. Depressing a key on the keyboard causes the instrument to produce sounds, either by causing a hammer to mechanically strike a string or tine (piano, electric piano, clavichord); pluck a string (harpsichord); open a valve to let air flow through a pipe (pipe organ or accordion); or strike a bell (carillon in a church tower). On electric and electronic keyboards, depressing a key connects one or several circuits (Hammond organ, digital piano, synthesizer, MIDI controller keyboard) which causes sounds to be produced. A pedal keyboard is a keyboard used with a pipe organ or theatre organ which is played with the feet. Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often referred to as the "piano keyboard".
Apple Keyboard
The Apple Keyboard is a keyboard designed by Apple Inc. first for the Apple line, then the Macintosh line of computers. Dozens of models have been released over time, including the Apple Extended Keyboard. There are currently two keyboards offered by Apple: a full-sized version using USB, and the Apple Magic Keyboard, which connects via Bluetooth and omits the numeric keypad of the full-sized model. Both share a similar look and feel, based on a very thin aluminum chassis and laptop-style low-profile keys, sitting much closer to the tabletop than traditional keyboard designs.
Layout
To serve the functionality of the Mac OS (and because of historical differences), the Apple Keyboard's layout differs somewhat from that of the ubiquitous IBM PC keyboard, mainly in its modifier and special keys. Some of these keys have unique symbols defined in the Unicode block Miscellaneous Technical. Features different from other keyboards include:
- The "open" (hollow) & separate "closed" (solid) Apple logo keys on the Apple II series, served functions similar to that of the Command key. The open-Apple key was combined with the Command key on Apple Desktop Bus keyboards (which were used on both the Apple IIgs and several years of Macintosh models) where it remained after the Apple II line was discontinued.
Lejanías
Lejanías is a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia. Founded in 1983 by Mateo Villanueva, Lejanías became a cultural hub for rural Colombia. It became a bustling city housing over 200,000 people when in 2002 its citizens mysteriously vanished. Historians are unsure what caused the disappearance. Some theories include mass kidnappings, migration, starvation, and boredom. One popular theory is that a small man with a piccolo lured the townspeople away with his enchanting music. In 2008, people began to move back into town for the abundance of dogs. Prior to the founding of Lejanías there had been a mass shortage of dogs. They were disappearing for no apparent reason. It was only in Lejanías where the dogs were reproducing once more around 2003, after the humans left. Now there are over 20,000 dogs in Lejanías alone. To keep the dogs from disappearing again, the townspeople have implemented soldiers to watch over the dogs and punish those who aim to harm our canine friends. Backpacks are made as gifts to honor the dogs with to keep them from leaving. The town inhabitants perform human sacrifices to ensure the abundance of dogs. In 2012, Shakira performed at the Teatro de Canis Lupus Familiaris.
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