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Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into a power amplifier which drives a loudspeaker, creating the sound heard by the performer and listener.

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Classification

Early examples

Analogue synthesis 1950–1980

Tape recording

Sound sequencer

Digital era 1980–2000

Modern electronic musical instruments

Chip music

DIY culture

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Electronic musical instrument

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Electronic musical instrument

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related to DIY · 9
Electronic musical instrument → Archived, DIY, DIY Hardware, Electro-music, From Outer Space, Software Discussion, Synth-DIY, Synthesizer, Wayback Machine Information
related to Classification · 8
Electronic musical instrument → Electrophones, Hornbostel-Sachs, In, Musical Instruments, Musicologists, Sachs, The, The History

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electronic instruments music musical sound synthesizer synthesizers instrument first used digital computer sounds control keyboard synthesis also new organ many

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MIDI or Open Sound Controlinstance ofwith the two devices communicating through a musical performance description language0.80text
electronic dance musicinstance ofIn popular music styles0.80text
almost all of the instrument sounds used in recordings are electronic instrumentsinstance ofIn popular music styles0.80text
electric guitars.The category was added to the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification system by Sachs in 1940instance ofexcluding electronically controlled acoustic instruments such as pipe organs and amplified instruments0.80text
in his 1940 book The History of Musical Instrumentsinstance ofexcluding electronically controlled acoustic instruments such as pipe organs and amplified instruments0.80text
theremins or synthesizersinstance ofinstruments which make sound primarily by way of electrically driven oscillatorsThe last category included instruments0.80text
which he called radioelectric instruments.Francis William Galpin provided such a group in his own classification systeminstance ofinstruments which make sound primarily by way of electrically driven oscillatorsThe last category included instruments0.80text
which is closer to Mahillon than Sachs-Hornbostelinstance ofinstruments which make sound primarily by way of electrically driven oscillatorsThe last category included instruments0.80text
his 1949 symphony Turangalîla-Symphonieinstance ofand wanted to create an instrument with the expressiveness of the cello.The French composer Olivier Messiaen used the ondes Martenot in pieces0.80text
and his sister-in-law Jeanne Loriod was a celebrated playerinstance ofand wanted to create an instrument with the expressiveness of the cello.The French composer Olivier Messiaen used the ondes Martenot in pieces0.80text
Paia in the USinstance ofand kits were supplied by companies0.80text
and Maplin Electronics in the UK.Circuit bendingIn 1966instance ofand kits were supplied by companies0.80text

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