As he turned to leave, he heard it again someone deliberately banging the keys of the piano.
Even if the type bar doesn't hit the platen, a computer will recognize the input, but if you bang the keys hard enough you can make an old-school hard copy on paper while a computer also records your keystrokes.
In the back room, the grand piano boomed: someone must have jumped inside it and others were banging on the keys.
Playing the piano for his "Mixed Media Opera" (1968) at Town Hall, Mr. Paik is seen, stripped to the waist, improvisationally banging on the keys with his head.
Even though Dylan Powell, a freshman, had vowed to devote the ride home to an algebra assignment, he instead called up a digital keyboard using GarageBand, a music-making program, and spent the next half-hour with earphones on, pretending to be a rock star, banging on the keys of his laptop and swaying back and forth in his seat.
His band did a sound check, and within minutes Marlon was banging on the keys and we were in the middle of an afternoon jazz freak fest.
People started marching down some of the main streets, many shaking keys or banging on pots and pans.
Amid his early memories, he can see himself "crawling up into her lap while she sat at the typewriter banging away at the keys".
He demonstrates banging away at the keys with both hands, and exhibits the lesson a family friend gave: "I'm-a teach you how to play a melody with one finger".
The pianists get to bang on the keys, and they get to open up the piano and play with its insides.
