Acoustic musical instrument
The term acoustic musical instrument is a retronym that is used in recording technology, sound reinforcement technology and z. T. is used in instrument making as a generic name for instruments that, due to their mechanical-acoustic functional principle, generate directly musically usable sound , such as timpani, flute, violin, xylophone, acoustic guitar and acoustic bass . It is used to distinguish these from groups of instruments whose mechanical-acoustic vibrations have to be amplified electro-acoustically (e.g. electric guitar ), or instruments / devices such as synthesizers , samplers and noise generators that do not contain any mechanical-acoustic components.
criticism
The use of the adjective acoustic for only a certain group of musical instruments is inappropriate. In specialist literature and musicology, the terms conventional or conventional are used instead . In physically oriented publications that endeavor to precisely describe the origin of sound, the term mechanical musical instrument can be found (then not to be confused with mechanical music automatons ).