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A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
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A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
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A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.
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A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
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An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
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A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
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Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune.
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The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.
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