Guess what! A piano is a keyboard (instrument).

[Larry Sheldon]

On 3/18/2012 12:48 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
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> On 3/18/2012 12:40 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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>> Have you tried n-grams? There might be an interesting increase in use =
>> for keyboard with respect to classical music, for example. =
>> http://books.google.com/ngrams
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> Another gaping hole in my toolbag.  No I have not, I'll have a look.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=keyboard%2C+concerto&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Fascinating.  Seems to support my poorly formed hypothesis.

I didn't NEED something else to stay up all night playing with!

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