# Trying to get sounds to play on keystroke in AS3

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trying-to-get-sounds-to-play-on-keystroke-in-as3/323598>\
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**Created:** [July 8, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trying-to-get-sounds-to-play-on-keystroke-in-as3/323598 "2011-07-08T17:57:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![mattblack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@mattblack](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mattblack)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trying-to-get-sounds-to-play-on-keystroke-in-as3/323598/1 "2011-07-08T17:57:00Z")

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[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000]stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY\_DOWN, fl\_KeyboardDownHandler\_4);

```
function fl_KeyboardDownHandler_4(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
if (event.keyCode == "40") bassd.play();
        if (event.keyCode == "37") tlow.play();
  if (event.keyCode == "88") snare.play();
  if (event.keyCode == "38") cym.play();
  if (event.keyCode == "83") thigh.play();
  if (event.keyCode == "68") tmid.play();
  if (event.keyCode == "90") hh.play();[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

```

Getting the following error for each line - what am I doing wrong??

```
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000]Symbol 'drum', Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 9 1176: Comparison between a value with static type uint and a possibly unrelated type String.
[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
```