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Enthusiasts build an interactive online ‘Listening Museum’ of iconic mechanical keyboard audio samples  — 36 mechanical masterpieces available for you to audibly try out

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(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) What do Google Sheets experts do for fun? In the case of the staff at sheets.works, they have built The Listening Museum for mechanical keyboard audio aficionados. This is a collection of 36 iconic to modern classic keyboards that have been multisampled and put into an interactive site. Just click on any of the keyboards represented on the page, turn up your speakers, and bash away. The museum features keyboard models, including the IBM Model M, a multitude of Cherry MX models, and popular modern product samples from the likes of SteelSeries and Logitech . I’ve owned, and still own, some great keyboards, with some vintage models dating back to the 1980s, and newfangled models with hall-effect adjustable actuation switches. However, there are plenty of samples at the Listening Museum that I can’t recall testing/hearing. Article continues below Its characteristic sound comes from the way “the coiled spring buckles sideways and slaps a pivoting hammer into the membrane.…

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