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Definition of Home key
1. Noun. The basic key in which a piece of music is written.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Home Key
Literary usage of Home key
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1901)
"The home key has no control over the home relay. 83. ... Let us consider that
whenever a current flows from the home key through the two coils on the home ..."
2. A Handbook of Practical Telegraphy by Richard Spelman Culley (1885)
"Should moving the home key cause the received signals to run together, it indicates
that too much of the outgoing current passes to line, and the resistance ..."
3. Electricity and the Electric Telegraph by George Bartlett Prescott (1888)
"When Vie home key is open and the distant key closed. If each battery consists
of say 100 cells, the resistance of the line 1000 ohms, rheostat r 1200, ..."
4. Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding (1920)
"... beginning in the home-key, would modulate to some related key — generally the
dominant; the second part, starting out in this key, gradually modulated ..."
5. Telegraphy: A Detailed Exposition of the Telegraph System of the British by Thomas Ernest Herbert (1906)
"Upon the other hand, a disconnection or the insertion of a very large resistance
in the rheostat will cause the marks from the home key to be received ..."
6. A Treatise on Telegraphy by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"The home key has no control over the home relay. 83. ... Let us consider that
whenever a current flows from the home key through the two coils on the home ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity: A General Reference Work on Direct by American Technical Society (1913)
"It is of course necessary that incoming signals be not interrupted by the operation
of the home key, therefore a double contact key is necessary to ground ..."
8. Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity: A General Reference Work on Direct by American Technical Society (1916)
"By this method one message may be sent by the home key and another message
simultaneously received by the relay and sounder without interference. ..."
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