ebony keys

And I had seen those fingers linger on the ebony keys with the delicacy of moths' feet.

It reminded him of a keyboard, but lacking ivory and ebony keys, and with nowhere to feed the paper tapes in.

One of the gems of his collection is a Hammond No. 1, an 1884 mahogany and cherry body with ebony keys, like a little piano with keys arranged in a crescent.

At first, I had the impression that there was nothing in the small room but a large harpsichord, made of gleaming, polished walnut, and decorated with small, hand-painted flowers sprouting from a twisting vine that ran along the sounding board above glowing ebony keys.