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.
The pianists get to bang on the keys, and they get to open up the piano and play with its insides.
A few of the girls managed to turn out something like a melody, while the guys just banged on the keys like assholes, laughing, as guys often do, at things that aren't funny.
Thus, when applying the Fourth Amendment to flash-bang searches, the key question courts need to answer is whether under the circumstances the use of this dangerous tactic is reasonable.
Amid his early memories, he can see himself "crawling up into her lap while she sat at the typewriter banging away at the keys".
