acoustic instrument
No electricity needed
An acoustic instrument produces sound through physical vibration rather than electronic amplification—strings, air columns, struck surfaces, or reeds.
Guitars, pianos, violins, and drums are acoustic in their traditional forms: She prefers the warmth of acoustic instruments over synthesizers.
The term gained currency as electronic instruments proliferated, distinguishing the original from the amplified.
- sound holeInstrument's tonal vent
- stringsThin flexible lines
- steel stringsMetal filaments for fretted instruments
- pluckingRemoving by tugging
- finger pickingPlucking strings by hand
blowing · woodwinds · keyboards · fingering · brass · striking · tapping · violins · sliding · natural wood · guitars · open tuning · percussion · hand drum · flutes · muting · handmade · pianos
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Circuitry-based musical device
electric guitar · synthesizer · electric bass · electric piano · electric violin
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