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A number of instruments have been invented, designed, and made, that make sound from matter in its liquid state. This class of instruments is called hydraulophones . Hydraulophones use an incompressible fluid, such as water, as the initial sound-producing medium, and they may also use the hydraulic fluid as a user-interface.
In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, up to five, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to ...
This category is a collection of articles relating to the organ (the musical instrument), including pipe organs, electronic organs, organists and related topics. Related topics include Category:Electric and electronic keyboard instruments
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First chord organ. Its "easy to play" [45] style initiated a new market segment leading to today's home keyboard market. [46] The S series Chord Organ can be played via following interfaces: [44] 37-note keyboard for solo or chords; 96-chord buttons (12-semitones × 8-chords variation) for chords; 2 wire touch-plates for strumming effect
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Hammond organs differ from pipe organs in that pipe organs can only pull a stop out (that is, turn on a stop) or push it in (turning off this stop); in contrast, Hammond organs typically have drawbars, so that the player can control how much of each "pipe rank" (e.g., 16 ft, 8 ft, 4 ft 2 ft, etc.) they wish to use. Synthesizers can program ...
A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification , such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families.