tickle the ivories

Has to keep her hands white to tickle the ivories."

John Ma, in town to tickle the ivories, gets mistaken for his brother.

And her decision to tickle the ivories while Beirut burns was inspired.

Ever wonder if it tickled Tchaikovsky just to tickle the ivories?

There was a time when dolphins could have performed card tricks or tickled the ivories.

It is not clear where Sir Trevor learned to tickle the ivories.

You know that awful expression 'tickle the ivories'?

"ivories" for a piano The maestro sure knows how to tickle the ivories.

First she played "Sweet Adeline," singing along as she tickled the ivories.

It was nice, here in this bricky room, glowing in the candlelight, the pianist tickling the ivories in the background.

He was not tickling the ivories at the baby grand, as he regularly does at Union, a fashionable Los Angeles bar.

Elsewhere along the promenade, a life-size Dooley Wilson tickled the ivories of a player piano as Bogey looked on.

Tickling the ivories and offering ongoing narrative in the form of telltale patter and heart-rending blues is Daniel Marcus.

Joan Blondell tickling the ivories at my hideout might have been tolerable, but Ann Dvorak was not my type.

E Map Soothing Café Opera, based upstairs in an old merchant's house, occasionally has a piano player tickling the ivories.

So far, he has extracted 25 chestnuts from a repertory that, performed in full, would keep him tickling the ivories at Feinstein's "from now until Christmas."

It is doubtful that Blake ever tickled the ivories with Mozart's "Don Giovanni," but the accompanist for Miss Squash certainly did.

O Map Old-school Heliopolis, with stiffly starched serviettes, puffy chairs, sepia-toned photos on the wall and someone tickling the ivories while you eat.

Where else could you sip aperitifs, chatting casually to fellow travellers while a pianist tickles the ivories against a backdrop of beautiful scenery as it passes by outside?

Jillian Bowe of Zap2it said viewers got "a bit of shock when they saw the socialite's hands shake after she tickled the ivories in her new deluxe apartment."

At first it all felt too glacial; now there are children tickling the ivories of the Yamaha grand, and couples swanning on the terrace and among the carp pools.

"I Love a Piano," Irving Berlin's anthem to the keyboard, has been music to my ears ever since I began tickling the ivories at the age of 8.

Mr. Magee is a sort of ringmaster to this circus, playing Feste the clown as a slick Tin Pan Alley pianoman who keeps tickling the ivories throughout.

Elton John - The piano rocker managed to tickle the ivories right into being dubbed a knight himself by the Queen of England in 1998, just a year after McCartney.

Equally likely to be found cracking dry jokes as tickling the ivories, Rowlf is one of the few Muppets rarely flustered by the mayhem so prevalent around The Muppet Show.