piano keys
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Piano keys are the white and black levers pressed to play a piano.
The white keys play natural notes, the black keys sharps and flats.
By extension, piano keys describes anything with that alternating pattern: a piano-key necktie, piano-key teeth.
The phrase also evokes the act of playing: Her fingers danced across the piano keys.
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Foot-operated levers
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