Dvorak keyboard

[ dvawr-ak kee-bawrd ]

/ ˈdvɔr æk ˈkiˌbɔrd /

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a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.

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Also called Dvo·rak .

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1930–35; named after its inventor, August Dvorak, U.S. educational psychologist and professor of education (1894–1975)

The general public has never paid much attention to his music, but other pianists know what this man can do at the keyboard.
The Best Albums of 2014|Ted Gioia|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The boxes are not arranged alphabetically, and a printer learns the case as one learns the typewriter keyboard.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire|H.L. Mencken|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like his three brothers, Art, the Nevilles' keyboard player, has his thing on the side—the Meters, the band he took to Europe.
The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the Bayou|John Ed Bradley|April 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Art led the family starship on keyboard and did his own good share of singing.
The Cradle of Jazz, Blues and Gospel Endlessly Rocking|Jason Berry|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Carroll talks to me over the sound of an organ projecting from a Yamaha keyboard.
This Civil War Reenactor Controls Christie’s Fate|Olivia Nuzzi|March 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The keyboard had eleven, twelve, even thirteen keys in diatonic succession without semitones.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Depression of these key-touches brought different combinations of stops into use on the keyboard above which they were placed.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Some fine effects could be produced by this, but of course the whole keyboard was affected and only chords could be played.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
These pistons were placed below the keyboard whose stops they affected.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
It is now becoming more and more common to arrange for the transference of stops from one keyboard to another.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller