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Electrophones > Electro-acoustic instruments and devices > Electro-acoustic chordophones

Preferred term

513Electro-acoustic chordophones   Link to MIMO collections

Definition

  • Electrical signals are passed to a loudspeaker to produce sound. The signals are produced using materials that generate acoustic sound, or by mechanically driven signal sources. Modules and configurations of acoustic, vibratory mechanisms and electronic circuitry such as transducers and amplifiers. The acoustic or mechanical vibration is transduced into an analogue fluctuation of an electric current. One or more strings stretched between fixed points vibrate to provide input to a transducer (pick-up). (en)

Notation

  • 513

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http://www.mimo-db.eu/HornbostelAndSachs/6158

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