- MTV
... te Control]]'', and music-based specials such as ''[[MTV Unplugged]]'', an acoustic performance show.
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- Guitar
... uitar|solo classical instrument]]. Guitars may be played [[acoustic guitar|acoustically]], where the tone is produced by vibration of the strings and modulate ...
Guitars can be divided into two broad categories, acoustic and electric:
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- Bass guitar
... TV Unplugged|MTV's "Unplugged"]] show helped to popularize hollow-bodied [[acoustic bass guitar]]s amplified with pickups.
... y hollow bodies, which changes the tone and resonance of the instrument. [[Acoustic bass guitar]]s are typically equipped with piezoelectric or magnetic picku ...
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- Microphone
... and in computers for recording voice, [[Voice over IP|VoIP]], and for non-acoustic purposes such as ultrasonic checking.
... ndenser microphone, also known as a capacitor microphone, the [[Diaphragm (acoustics)|diaphragm]] acts as one plate of a [[capacitor]], and the vibrations pro ...
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- Rock music
The sound of rock often revolves around the [[electric guitar]] or acoustic guitar, and it uses a strong [[back beat]] laid down by a [[rhythm section ...
The folk scene was made up of folk music lovers who liked acoustic instruments, traditional songs, and [[country blues|blues music]] with a s ...
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- Tremolo arm
... dy, making it the only design particularly suitable for acoustic and semi-acoustic guitars.
... igsby, and are therefore equally suitable for use on [[Steel-string guitar|acoustic guitars]] and especially [[archtop guitar|archtops]]. This reflects the Gi ...
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- Fender Stratocaster
... d title -->]</ref>, with the exception of the Acoustasonic Strat, the only acoustic Stratocaster.<ref>[http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=013970 ...
... atocaster, [[Telecaster]], [[humbucker|humbucking pickup]], and [[acoustic|acoustic guitar]] sounds. <ref>http://www.fender.com/vgstrat/home.html</ref> The VG ...
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- Pull-off
===Acoustic versus electric instruments===
... uments, this means the second note has little [[sustain]]. As a result, in acoustic music, pull-offs are primarily used as an embellishment. Performers of plu ...
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- Gibson Les Paul
... 8-12}}</ref> to the Sunburst finish already being used on Gibson's archtop acoustic and hollow electric guitars such as the J-45 model. These Sunburst-finishe ...
... es: Burstbucker (humbucker), a P-90 single-coil and a bridge-mounted piezo acoustic—-all of which contribute to organic blends of original sounds.<ref>{{cit ...
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- The Automatic
|[[Glastonbury]] 2008, Acoustic performance of Steve McQueen
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- X-Play
... ling Dongs'' (in reality ''X-Play'' segment producer Mark Fahey playing an acoustic guitar), featuring the ''X-Play After School Choir'' (comprised of Morgan, ...
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- Gibson Guitar Corporation
... arched tops in guitars. By the 1930s, the company was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as the first commercially available hollow-body electric ...
... ow and custom shop instruments, while the Bozeman facility is dedicated to acoustic instruments.
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- Tapping
... rmances throughout the early 20th century. The [[clavichord]] was an early acoustic keyboard instrument that used a mechanical hammer to "fret" a string for e ...
... ally [[distortion (guitar)|overdriven]] — although it is possible to tap acoustically — with drive serving as a boost to further amplify the non-picked (a ...
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- Phoneme
... es in sign languages. Features could be designated as [[acoustic phonetics|acoustic]] (Jakobson) or [[articulatory phonetics|articulatory]] (Halle & Chomsky) ...
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- Electronic drum
... is generated by an electronic waveform generator or sampler instead of by acoustic vibration.
... e with most [[industrial music]]. Many see this as a great advantage over acoustic drums, as one can have a [[jazz]], [[rock and roll|rock]] or [[ballad]] dr ...
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- Electronic drum module
... udible drum sounds. Most electronic drum modules emulate a wide variety of acoustic drum kit variations, with labels such as: "[[rock music|rock]] kit", "[[ja ...
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- MP3
... ion ability of most people. This method is commonly referred to as [[psychoacoustics|perceptual coding]].<ref name=Jayant1993>{{cite journal
... sound within a short term time/frequency analysis window, by using [[psychoacoustic]] models to discard or reduce precision of components less audible to huma ...
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- The Who
... Townshend had massive hearing problems and would be relegated to strumming acoustic guitar. A horn section and backing singers were added. ''[[Newsweek]]'' sa ...
... ark, London|Hyde Park]]. He intended to perform ''Quadrophenia'' as a solo acoustic piece using parts of the film on screens. Entwistle and Daltrey agreed a o ...
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- Dashboard Confessional
| Genre = [[Alternative rock]], [[Acoustic rock]]
... a]]. The band started out with Carrabba solely playing intimately personal acoustic songs, and eventually became a full band ensemble.
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- Plain White T's
* Tom Higgenson- Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
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