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On a majority of instruments, this places the notes from low to high pitch. Exceptions exist: Instruments using reentrant tuning (e.g., the charango) may have a high string before a low string. Instruments strung in the reverse direction (e.g. mountain dulcimer) will be noted with the highest sounding courses on the left and the lowest to the ...
In music, live instrumentation is the use of acoustic and electronic musical instruments in live music and recording rather than DJing, sampling, and other recording techniques. This music-related article is a stub .
The instrument was originally a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick, one or more thick gut strings, and a pig's-bladder resonator. It was bowed with either a notched stick or a horsehair bow. [1] The folk instrument was historically played by "wandering musicians" and beggars up to the early 19th century.
The Paradis and other models had volatile memories, forcing composers to develop fresh loops live in front of their audiences — and thus, live looping came into existence. Roland and DigiTech loop pedals entered the market in 2001, around the same time DJ mixing gained popularity. When the 2002 Repeater introduced real-time studio looping ...
Ancient kings playing an organistrum at the Pórtico de la Gloria in the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The hurdy-gurdy is generally thought to have originated from fiddles in either Europe or the Middle East (e.g., the rebab instrument) before the eleventh century A.D. [2] The first recorded reference to fiddles in Europe was in the 9th century by the ...
The archlute (Spanish: archilaúd, Italian: arciliuto, German: Erzlaute) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, [1] the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, [2] and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo.
His instrument consisted of 26 goblets, [4] "filled with spring water." [1] A Grand Harmonicon, a form of the glass harp invented by Francis Hopkinson Smith in 1825. [5] The instrument was popular in the 18th century. Pockrich's contemporary, Ford, published Instructions for the Playing of the Musical Glasses while Bartl published a German ...
Live plants have been used as musical instruments, especially in electronic music.. Live plants can be used as electronic musical instrument by running a weak electric current through them and by amplifying the way the current is changed when the plants are touched, or by applying contact microphones and amplifying the projection and tone of the sounds produced when handling them.