keyboard

But when she broke her tiny Casio keyboard out of its Toys R Us box, she had to face an uncomfortable reality.

The duo were an unusual pairing: Ball was the quiet technician, hunched over his keyboard, while Almond was a flamboyant showman, all glitter and eye-liner; but they achieved a rare musical alchemy.

The desktop computer transformed the labor market, for example, but for a while workers hunting and pecking on their keyboards didn’t know how to effectively use the technology.

The album as a whole is airy, bouncy, midtempo and meek, with bubbly keyboards, soft piano and no sonic extremes.

But they're always nearby - behind a microphone, at a keyboard, or in the stands - ready to pounce after a mistake.