electronic instrument

Plug-in music maker

An electronic instrument is a musical instrument that generates or modifies sound through electronic circuits rather than purely acoustic means.

Synthesizers, theremins, and electric guitars fall into this category.

The term covers instruments that produce sound electronically from scratch and those that amplify or process sounds from physical sources: She studied electronic instruments in her music production course.

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equalizer · modulator · sequencer · multimeter · oscilloscope · vocoder · digital piano · sampler · compressor · effects pedal · looper · keytar · mixer · arpeggiator · Moog · voltmeter · voltage meter · ammeter

Opposites
sound production method

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Music device needing no power

acoustic guitar · violin · cello · flute · double bass

technological era

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Music tool from heritage

folk instrument · ancient instrument · lyre · lute · sitar

amplification dependency

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Sound from throat

human voice · hand percussion · woodwind · brass instrument

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