Electrophone

An electrophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by electrical means. It is one of the five main categories in the 1961 revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification (though it was not included in the original scheme published in 1914). The other four are idiophone, membranophone, chordophone and aerophone.

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Musical instrument - Sound - Electrical - Hornbostel-Sachs - Musical instrument classification - Idiophone - Membranophone - Chordophone - Aerophone

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Any instrument which produces sound purely by electric means is an electrophone, but the term was not originally applied to instruments where electricity was only used to amplify a sound produced by conventional measures (so that the electric guitar, for example, would be classified as a chordophone, not electrophone).

Related Topics:
Electric guitar - Chordophone

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See also: Electronic musical instrument, Electric Musical Instrument

Related Topics:
Electronic musical instrument - Electric Musical Instrument

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