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A rendition of the musical sting, based on the "Shock Horror (A)" version recorded by Dick Walter in 1984. Dun dun duuun! is a short three-chord musical phrase, or "sting", widely used in movies and television to indicate a moment of suspense.
A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.
The three-hand effect (or three-hand technique) is a means of playing on the piano with only two hands, but producing the impression that one is using three hands. Typically this effect is produced by keeping the melody in the middle register, with accompanying arpeggios in the treble and bass registers.
The video for the song echoes the effect, with the camera apparently rising continually throughout. [24] In Sumio Kobayashi's piano work "Unreal Rain", the Shepard tone is entirely used. [25] [clarification needed] In the song "Fear Inoculum", Tool drummer Danny Carey introduces the track with the Shepard tone
[6]: 88 The 2000s-era grand piano action is a distant descendant of Cristofori's original. One of the most well-known French piano actions was created by Jean Schwander in 1844 and improved upon by his son-in-law Josef Herrburger; the Schwander action is still used in Bechstein pianos. At the turn of the century, Schwander-Herrburger merged ...
With the exception of the metronome that is used in the Miracle system's lessons, the Miracle system does not ever generate sounds through the video game console hardware. All MIDI information from the console is converted into audio by the instrument's built-in ROM and played through the instrument's stereo speakers, allowing the keyboard to ...
prepared piano, i.e., introducing foreign objects into the workings of the piano to change the sound quality; string piano, i.e., striking, plucking, or bowing the strings directly, or any other direct manipulation of the strings; resonance effects (whistling, singing or talking into the piano) silently depressing one or more keys, allowing the ...
Some effect pedals used with electromechanical keyboards such as the Fender Rhodes electric piano or digital keyboards respond to loudness and so, indirectly, to key velocity. Examples include overdrive pedals, which produce a clean sound for softer notes, and a distortion effect for louder notes—and fixed wah-wah pedals that filter the audio ...