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  2. Music of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Indonesia is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles.Every region has its own culture and art, and as a result traditional music from area to area also uniquely differs from one another.

  3. Bass - Wikipedia

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    Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: Bass instruments commonly referred to as just "bass", including: Bass guitar, the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family; Double bass, the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument; Tuba, often called "the bass" in the context of brass ...

  4. Guitar - Wikipedia

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    The modern word guitar and its antecedents have been applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times, sometimes causing confusion. The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة (qīthārah) [6] and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek ...

  5. Acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a guitar's body is a sound box, of which the top side serves as a sound board that enhances the vibration sounds of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings [2] are tuned (low to high) E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4. Guitar strings may be plucked individually with a pick (plectrum) or fingertip, or strummed to play chords.

  6. Bass guitar - Wikipedia

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    The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (/ b eɪ s /) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar , but with a longer neck and scale length .

  7. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...

  8. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

  9. Rowe Industries - Wikipedia

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    In 1941, Rowe Industries introduced the world's first effects unit intended specifically to modify the sound of an electric guitar. The floor-based Model 601 Tremolo Control [ 1 ] contained a 120V AC motor that rocked a small sealed bottle fitted with two electrical contacts and containing electrically conductive fluid.