Piano: Treble Clef and Bass Clef: An Open Learning Guide
Music can be written in a variety of ways. Less intricate systems exist which only indicate the basic structure (chord changes) of a song and require the reader to already know the melody or
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Piano: Types of Pianos: An Open Learning Guide
There are three primary types of pianos: Grand, Upright, and Electronic. These types are often resized and combined to incarnate other styles, such as the "Electric Baby Grand Piano", "Elect
Piano: Why Play Piano?: An Open Learning Guide
There are many and varied reasons to play the piano. It is a beautiful instrument with a beautiful look and a beautiful sound. It can be a soloist's instrument or a group instrument. It shar
Triolin: History and Key Facts
The Triolin is an acoustic bowed metal instrument designed and built by Hal Rammel in 1991.
Tronichord: History and Key Facts
The Tronichord, also known as the Portachord, is a rare electronic musical instrument manufactured by Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation of Japan in 1981-1985 A precursor to the larger and mor
UPIC: History and Key Facts
UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique CEMAMu) is a computerised musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis.
Vocoder: History and Key Facts
A vocoder (, a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or
Yamaha PortaSound: History and Key Facts
Yamaha PortaSound (and PortaTone) were a series of consumer-grade electronic musical keyboards were produced by the Yamaha Corporation thoroughout the 1980s, 1990s and the early 2000s.
Musical instrument: History and Key Facts
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
Recording studio as an instrument: History and Key Facts
In music production, the recording studio is often treated as a musical instrument when it plays a significant role in the composition of music.
Vintage musical equipment: History and Key Facts
Vintage musical equipment is older music gear, including instruments, amplifiers and speakers, sound recording equipment and effects pedals, sought after, maintained and used by record producers,
Acoustic resonance: History and Key Facts
Acoustic resonance is a phenomenon in which an acoustic system responds strongly to sound waves whose frequency matches one of its own natural frequencies of vibration (its resonance frequencies)
Bar zither: History and Key Facts
Bar zither is class of musical instruments (subset of zither) within the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for a type of chordophone (stringed instrument), in which the body of the instrumen
Chord Master: History and Key Facts
Chord Master (also rendered Visual Chord Master, chordmaster) is the brand-name for a type of automated chording device produced for the ukulele.
Conservation and restoration of musical instruments: History and Key Facts
The conservation and restoration of musical instruments is performed by conservator-restorers who are professionals, properly trained to preserve or protect historical and current musical instrum
Folk instrument: History and Key Facts
A folk instrument is a traditional musical instrument that has remained largely restricted to traditional folk music, and is not usually used in the classical music or other elite and formal musi
Harpsichord-viola: History and Key Facts
The harpsichord-viola (in Italian Clavi-viola) is a hybrid musical instrument based on the designs of Leonardo da Vinci on folio 93r of the Codex Atlanticus.
Instrumentation (music): History and Key Facts
In music, instrumentation is the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and the properties of those instruments individually.
Instrumental idiom: History and Key Facts
In music, an instrumental idiom refers to writing, parts, and performance, those being idiomatic or nonidiomatic depending on how well each is suited to the specific instrument intended, in terms
Kurdish musical instruments: History and Key Facts
Kurdish musical instruments (Kurdish: ئامێرە میوزیکییە کوردییەکان, romanized: Amêre mîwzîkiye Kurdiyekan) are traditional instruments used in the music of the Kurdish people, in Kurdistan, which
Musical instrument classification: History and Key Facts
Musical instrument classification is the practice of grouping musical instruments according to shared characteristics.
Organ landscape of East Frisia: History and Key Facts
With more than 90 important organs from six centuries, the Organ landscape East Frisia is one of the richest organ landscapes in the world.
Planephones: History and Key Facts
Planephones, or planofoni, represent an innovative sound art creation.
Tonograph: History and Key Facts
The tonograph (Italian: tonografo) is a device invented by Italian scientist Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi (1764-1852) and presented at the Terza riunione degli scienziati italiani (the "Third Meeting
Woodwind instrument: History and Key Facts
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
Transposing instrument: History and Key Facts
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano).
Elektron Octatrack: History and Key Facts
The Octatrack DPS-1 (Dynamic Performance Sampler) is a digital electronic music instrument made by Elektron.
Rasan Chauki: History and Key Facts
Rasan Chauki (Maithili: रसन चौकी) refers to a Mithila's traditional folk instrument group.