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Calliope on the Minne-Ha-Ha, a stern-wheeler on Lake George, New York Kitch Greenhouse Steam Calliope at the Ohio Historical Society – July 2006 Fairground calliope trailer being hauled by a U.S.-built traction engine – New Orleans Mardi Gras 2007 Steam calliope (c. 1901) built by George Kratz and used on the showboat French's New Sensation at The Mariners' Museum
Instruments classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction idiophones, struck or friction membranophones or struck chordophones. Where an instrument meets this definition but is often or traditionally excluded from the term percussion this is noted. Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion.
Pinched, plucked (i.e. in music for bowed strings, plucked with the fingers as opposed to played with the bow; compare arco, which is inserted to cancel a pizzicato instruction; in music for guitar, to mute the strings by resting the palm on the bridge, simulating the sound of pizz. of the bowed string instruments)
Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. [2] Genre, however, is not always dependent on instrumentation.
The Husky experimented with his new gift. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
When the triggers are struck or activated by the vibration of a drum or other instrument, the electronic drum module interprets the signal and outputs the specific voice assigned to that trigger. The sound (or "voice") may be a sample or synthesized reproduction of any of a wide variety of drum, cymbal, percussion or other instruments, or even ...
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards
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