As we celebrate the 235th birthday of our great nation, we asked a number of community leaders to share their thoughts on what the Fourth of July means to them. Here are the responses we received: The Fourth of July reminds me very simply of our freedom. This year, like last, is also a time for reflection on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as our youngest adult child, Sgt. Kenneth Butler, will be heading back to Afghanistan in a couple weeks, like he did at this time last year.
The standard organ manual keyboard has 61 keys and the pedal keyboard has 32 keys. Most pipe organs have at least two manual keyboards and large.
Long before the appearance of the first stringed keyboard instruments in the 14th century, the keyboard was developed and applied to the organ. A keyboard of the kind familiar todayâa series of parallel levers hinged or pivoted so that they can be pushed down by the fingersâfirst appeared on the hydraulus, an organ probably invented in Alexandria in the late 3rd century bc.