Instrument Vocabulary List 4

Instrument Vocabulary List 4

· Pickup - a microphone placed under the strings of an electric or bass guitar in order to transmit the sound waves into an amplifier.

· Soprano - The highest female voice.

· Alto - The lowest female voice.

· Tenor - The highest male voice.

· Bass (voice) - The lowest male voice.

· Beat - The underlying pulse of a piece of music.

· Synthesizer - An electronic instrument, often played with a keyboard, that creates a variety of different sounds, often imitating other instruments.

· Keyboard - An electronic instrument that is played like a piano. It can produce a variety of different sounds

· Organ - An instrument consisting of a number of pipes that sound tones when supplied with air and a keyboard that operates a mechanism that controls the flow of air to the pipes. The electronic version creates the same sounds.

· Piano - A musical instrument with a manual keyboard that uses hammers to strike a string and produce a sound