Remember the typewriter? Well, it lives on still. While it’s not longer weighing down every desk in every office, it’s still a vital component of our nation’s musical heritage. Musical? That’s right, Musical.
In 1950, composer Leroy Anderson composed “The Typewriter,” which is a pops piece for orchestra plus one special instrument. If you said the glockenspiel, you’re wrong. If you said the typewriter, ding! Speaking of the ding, let’s listen to the classical piece made famous by pretty much every cartoon character who has ever typed something in a hurry.
That’s the one thing I hate about the modern keyboard. You get some soft clacking noises, but nothing like the incredible sound and tactile pleasure of clacking away on an old-school typewriter. If they ever had a keyboard that made typewriter clicks and dings, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
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