Sentence examples for six keys from inspiring English sources

Within the limits of mean-tone temperament, the six keys exhaust the chromatic compass available.

By the late 18th century the instrument had five or six keys and was built in various pitches, the written music being transposed to preserve the same fingerings.

"I've seen people at a videoconference grooming themselves on camera," says Laura Stack, C.E.O. of the Productivity Pro, a management consulting firm, and author of "SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best".

The bagpipe was bellows-blown, with a cylindrical double-reed chanter beside which the instrument-maker Jean Hotteterre, about 1650, placed a short stopped chanter with six keys giving notes above the main chanter compass.

My friend, who is leaving for China the next day, presents me with six keys: the oval one for the street door; the square one for the door to the apartment; a T-shaped key for a bolted heavy wooden door to enter the apartment when the elevator breaks down and I must use the stairs; a small key for the mailbox; and two keys whose purpose continue to elude me.

That's why this thing works - we can get away with only six keys".

Six key points in the nuclear crisis.

Six Key Talking Points For Startup CEOs.

Six key themes emerged.

I needed seventy-six keys to mimic the prison's piano.

Fifty keys at three thousand each.