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An acoustic guitar with pickups for electrical amplification is called an acoustic-electric guitar. In the 2000s, manufacturers introduced new types of pickups to try to amplify the full sound of these instruments. This includes body sensors, and systems that include an internal microphone along with body sensors or under-the-saddle pickups.
Music portal; Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. [1]
In traditional music, the overtone scale persists in the music of peoples of South Siberia, especially in Tuvan music. Overtone singing and the sound of the Jew's harp are naturally rich in overtones, but melodies performed on the igil (bowed instrument distantly related to the violin) and plucked string instruments such as the doshpuluur or the chanzy also often follow the overtone scale ...
Since the future of the free identification service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský. [6] The oldest entry in the DB is from 8 Oct 2010. [7]
As with all wooden instruments, the sound of any guitar type varies from individual instrument to instrument, model to model, maker to maker, year/era to era as well as (in particular) choice of tonewoods, however owners, retailers and makers typically agree that the dreadnought style offers the most powerful acoustic guitar sound available ...
Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony. MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC, in 1992. ATRAC allowed a relatively small disc like MiniDisc to have the same running time as CD while storing audio information with minimal perceptible loss in ...
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Rudolf Schenker – acoustic guitar; Matthias Jabs – acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar; Ralph Rieckermann – bass, contrabass; James Kottak – drums, backing vocals; Additional musicians. Christian Kolonovits – piano and Hammond organ; Johan Daansen – acoustic guitar; Mario Argandoña – percussion; Ariana Arcu – cello