Close
  » Webaroo WikiSlice
WikiSlice  »  Continuous pitch instruments
Create WikiSlice on
Showing 21 to 29 out of 29 Popular Pages
Syntheremin
Syntheremin is a combination term for “Synthesizer” and “Theremin”, and an original musical instrument that a Japanese composer AQi Fzono conceived and invented with the cooperation of a Japanese engineer Michio Kurahashi in 1995. It’s a Theremin with functions of controlling waveforms and parameters as well as synthesizing sounds. One of the distinctive functions is that it has a series of antennas and each one corresponds to a parameter, so the parameters can be controlled real-time just... More »
Continuum (instrument)
The Continuum is a music performance controller developed by Lippold Haken and sold by Haken Audio, located in Champaign, Illinois. Technically a MIDI controller, the Continuum features a touch-sensitive neoprene playing surface measuring approximately 19 cm high by either 137 cm long or 72 cm long . Sensors under the playing surface respond to finger position and pressure in three dimensions and provide pitch resolution of one cent along the length of the scale , allowing essentially... More »
Musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is the application of a hand saw as a musical instrument. The sound created is an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin, or a clear woman's voice. The musical saw is classified as an idiophone under the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. The saw is generally played seated with the handle squeezed between the legs, and the far end held with one hand. It is generally played with the teeth facing the body, though some... More »
Slide whistle
A slide whistle is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it. It thus has an air reed like some woodwinds, but varies the pitch with a slide. Because the air column is cylindrical and open at one end and closed at the other, it overblows the third harmonic. The slide whistle is most commonly used as a sound effect , but it is also possible to play melodies on the slide whistle. The instrument became common in the 1920s when it was occasionally... More »
Violectra
Violectra is the trade name of an electric violin produced by Barcus-Berry with the pitch equivalent of an acoustic tenor violin, sometimes called baritone violin. It is tuned an octave below normal violin; i.e. between viola and cello. It was developed in USA by Barcus-Berry in the early 1960s but maybe not perfected till a bit later. Jean-Luc Ponty was one of the first famous jazz violinists to play it, Michal Urbaniak and Elek Bacsik too. Fiddler Vassar Clements has brought the instrument... More »
Fretless guitar
The fretless bass is a bass guitar without frets . It operates in the same manner as most other stringed instruments and traditional guitars, but does not have any frets to act as the lower end point of the vibrating string. On a fretless bass, the vibrating string length runs from the bridge , where the strings are attached, all the way up to the point where the fingertip presses the string down on the fingerboard. More »
Erhu
The ''erhu'' , sometimes known in the West as the "Chinese violin" or Chinese two string fiddle, is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras. It belongs to the ''huqin'' family of bowed string Chinese instruments, together with the ''zhonghu'' , ''gaohu'' , ''banhu'' , ''jinghu'' , ''sihu'' , and numerous others. More »
Types of trombones
There are many different types of trombones. The most frequently encountered trombones today are the tenor and bass, though as with other Renaissance instruments such as the recorder, the trombone has been built in every size from piccolo to contrabass. Please see trombone for information about the instrument in general. More »
Spharophon
The Spharophan is an electrical instrument used to make music. It was invented in 1926 by Jorg Mager. Jorg Mager, in the spirit of many other electrical engineers during the early part of the 20th century tried to come up with new electrical devices that produced music. His most successful invention is called the Spharophon. There were two different inclinations of the Spharophon. The first one was similar to a Theremin, however Mager went the extra step and built in an aspect of his... More »
Showing 21 to 29 out of 29 Popular Pages
© 2007 Webaroo Inc. Webaroo® is a registered trademark of Webaroo Inc. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.