Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter (audio + sheet music)

The Typewriter is a novelty instrumental piece written by Leroy Anderson in 1950, and first performed by the Boston Pops. Its name refers to the fact that its performance requires a typewriter, which is used on stage: keystrokes, the typewriter bell, and the carriage return mechanism provide a major component of the piece, although Anderson demonstrated that a musical gourd could be used instead of a carriage typewriter is modified so that only two keys work; although many listeners have suspect