tickle the ivories
Verb

tickle the ivories

  1. (idiomatic) To play the piano.
    • 1984 June 9, Ben A. Franklin, "Mencken Monument Spurs ‘Frenzied Piffle’ ↗," New York Times (retrieved 14 Nov 2016):
      Mencken, more a music lover than a musician, sometimes tickled the ivories in a repertory of Beethoven, Bach, Strauss and W. C. Handy.



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