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==Use of a keyboard==
[[File:Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 13 in Verona, 1770.jpg|thumb|1770 Verona portrait of Mozart, which shows the composer playing a [[harpsichord]]]]
Mozart sometimes used a keyboard to work out his musical thoughts. This can be deduced from his letters and other biographical material.<ref>This point is made by the authors of the [[Cornell University]] website "Mozart and the keyboard culture of his time", which also offers digital images of the letters in question. See [http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/mozart/myth/TellTale_Letters.htm "Tell-Tale Letters"].</ref> For instance, on 1 August 1781, Mozart wrote to his father [[Leopold Mozart|Leopold]] concerning his living arrangements in Vienna, where he had recently moved:
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