electronic instruments

Voltage-controlled sound generators

Electronic instruments are musical instruments that generate or modify sound through electronic circuits rather than acoustic vibration.

Synthesizers, electric guitars, and drum machines fall into this category.

The term covers instruments that produce sound electronically from scratch a synthesizer is an electronic instrument and those that amplify or process acoustic sources an electric piano.

Electronic instruments transformed popular music in the twentieth century.

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