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62 relations: August Förster, Baldwin Piano Company, Bermuda Triangle Band, C. Bechstein, Celesta, Cembalet, Chamber music, Clavichord, Clavinet, Conn-Selmer, Digital piano, Duke Ellington, Electric grand piano, Electric guitar, Electromagnetism, Electronic musical instrument, Electronic piano, Hammond organ, Harpsichord, Helpinstill, Hohner, Hohner Pianet, Instrument amplifier, John Vassos, Kawai Musical Instruments, Keyboard (magazine), Lamellophone, Lloyd Loar, Loudspeaker, Moving parts, Musical instrument, Musical keyboard, Neo-Bechstein, Neoprene, Piano, Piano tuning, Pickup (music technology), Piezoelectricity, Poly(methyl methacrylate), Polyurethane, Ray Charles, RCA, Rhodes piano, Rocky Mount Instruments, Roger Penney, Signal, Silicone rubber, Sun Ra, Sustain pedal, Synthesizer, ... Expand index (12 more) »
- Electric pianos
August Förster
August Förster is a German piano manufacturing company (also rendered "Foerster," occasionally "Forster," officially "August Förster GmbH Kunsthandwerklicher Flügel-und-Pianobau") that currently has a staff of 40 employees and produces around 120 grand pianos and 150 uprights per year.
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Baldwin Piano Company
The Baldwin Piano Company is an American piano brand.
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Bermuda Triangle Band
Bermuda Triangle Band's wild psychedelic and delicately nuanced electric autoharp and transcendental vocals grew out of the late 1960s folk rock scene.
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C. Bechstein
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Celesta
The celesta or celeste, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.
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Cembalet
The Cembalet is a type of electro-mechanical piano built by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany from the late-1950s to the late 1960s, and designed by Ernst Zacharias.
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Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.
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Clavichord
The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.
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Clavinet
The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982.
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Conn-Selmer
Conn-Selmer, Inc. is an American manufacturer of musical instruments for concert bands, marching bands and orchestras.
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Digital piano
A digital piano is a type of electronic keyboard instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to the traditional acoustic piano, both in how it feels to play and in the sound it produces.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
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Electric grand piano
The electric grand piano is a stringed musical instrument played using a keyboard (an Electrified Version of a Traditional Acoustic Grand Piano), in which the vibration of strings struck by hammers is converted by pickups into electrical signals, analogous to the electric guitar's electrification of the traditional guitar. Electric piano and electric grand piano are electric pianos.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.
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Electromagnetism
In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields.
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Electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.
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Electronic piano
An electronic piano is a keyboard instrument designed to simulate the timbre of a piano (and sometimes a harpsichord or an organ) using analog circuitry.
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Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.
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Harpsichord
A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.
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Helpinstill
Helpinstill is a US-based company that produces a unique electromagnetic pickup system for amplifying grand and upright pianos on stage.
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Hohner
Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co.
Hohner Pianet
The Hohner Pianet is a type of electro-mechanical piano built by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany and designed by Ernst Zacharias. Electric piano and Hohner Pianet are electric pianos.
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Instrument amplifier
An instrument amplifier is an electronic device that converts the often barely audible or purely electronic signal of a musical instrument into a larger electronic signal to feed to a loudspeaker.
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John Vassos
John Vassos (born John Plato Vassacopoulos; 23 October 1898 – 6 December 1985) whose career as an American industrial designer and artist helped define the shape of radio, television, broadcasting equipment, and computers for the Radio Corporation of America for almost four decades.
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Kawai Musical Instruments
is a musical instrument manufacturing company headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Keyboard (magazine)
Keyboard is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the keyboard-related instruments.
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Lamellophone
A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free.
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Lloyd Loar
Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886–1943) was an American musician, instrument designer and sound engineer.
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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
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Moving parts
Machines include both fixed and moving parts.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.
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Neo-Bechstein
Neo-Bechstein or Bechstein-Siemens-Nernst-Flügel were a set of electric grand pianos that were primarily built by Walther Nernst in the 1930s. Electric piano and Neo-Bechstein are electric pianos.
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Neoprene
Neoprene (also polychloroprene) is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
Piano tuning
Piano tuning is the process of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune.
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
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Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress.
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Poly(methyl methacrylate)
Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is the synthetic polymer derived from methyl methacrylate.
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Polyurethane
Polyurethane (often abbreviated PUR and PU) refers to a class of polymers composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
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RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.
Rhodes piano
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Electric piano and Rhodes piano are electric pianos.
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Rocky Mount Instruments
Rocky Mount Instruments (RMI) was a subsidiary of the Allen Organ Company, based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, active from 1966 to 1982.
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Roger Penney
Roger D. Penney is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
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Signal
Signal refers to both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation.
Silicone rubber
Silicone rubber is an elastomer (rubber-like material) composed of silicone—itself a polymer—containing silicon together with carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
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Sun Ra
Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.
Sustain pedal
A sustain pedal or sustaining pedal (also called damper pedal, loud pedal, or open pedal) is the most commonly used pedal in a modern piano.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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Tine (structural)
Tines (also spelled tynes), prongs or teeth are parallel or branching spikes forming parts of a tool or natural object.
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Tonewheel
A tonewheel or tone wheel is a simple electromechanical apparatus used for generating electric musical notes in electromechanical organ instruments such as the Hammond organ and in telephony to generate audible signals such as ringing tone.
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Tuning fork
A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (''tines'') formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel).
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University of North Texas Press
The University of North Texas Press (or UNT Press), founded in 1987, is a university press that is part of the University of North Texas.
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Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family.
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Vintage Vibe
Vintage Vibe is a manufacturer of mechanical electric pianos, based in Rockaway, New Jersey.
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Vivi-Tone
Vivi-Tone was a musical instrument company formed in partnership by former instrument designer for Gibson Guitar Corporation, Lloyd Loar, Lewis A. Williams, and Walter Moon.
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What'd I Say
"What'd I Say" (or "What I Say") is an American rhythm and blues song by Ray Charles, released in 1959.
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Wurlitzer electronic piano
The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from 1954 to 1983. Electric piano and Wurlitzer electronic piano are electric pianos.
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Yamaha Corporation
is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.
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Yamaha CP-70
The Yamaha CP-70 is an electric piano manufactured by Yamaha Corporation between 1976 and 1985. Electric piano and Yamaha CP-70 are electric pianos.
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Yamaha DX7
The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989.
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See also
Electric pianos
- ARP 16-Voice Electronic Piano
- Electric grand piano
- Electric piano
- Hohner Pianet
- Neo-Bechstein
- Rhodes piano
- Wurlitzer electronic piano
- Yamaha CP-70
References
Also known as E-piano, Electric harpsichord, Epiano, Hohner Cembalet.