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General MIDI, the Glossary

General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages.^[1]

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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Aerophone

An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).

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Agogô

An agogô (Yoruba: agogo, meaning bell) is a single or a multiple bell now used throughout the world but with origins in traditional Yoruba and Edo music and also in the samba baterias (percussion ensembles).

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.

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Amplitude

The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change in a single period (such as time or spatial period).

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Apito

Apito, which is the Portuguese word for "whistle", refers to any of a variety of whistles.

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Applause

Applause (Latin, to strike upon, clap) is primarily a form of ovation or praise expressed by the act of clapping, or striking the palms of the hands together, in order to create noise.

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Archtop guitar

An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players.

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Audio filter

An audio filter is a frequency dependent circuit, working in the audio frequency range, 0 Hz to 20 kHz.

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Auto-wah

Auto-wah is a type of wah-wah effects pedal typically used with electric guitar, bass guitar, clavinet, and electric piano etc.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Bandoneon

The bandoneon (bandoneón) or bandonion is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass.

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Bass drum

The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Bass instrument

A bass instrument is a musical instrument that produces tones in the low-pitched range C2–C4.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Bell

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.

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Bell tree

A bell tree, also known as tree bells or Chinese bell tree (often confused with the mark tree), is a percussion instrument, consisting of vertically nested inverted metal bowls.

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Bird vocalization

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.

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Bit numbering

In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number.

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Blown bottle

A blown bottle is a musical instrument that produces sound when the musician blows air over the bottle opening.

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Bongo drum

Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes.

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Bow (music)

In music, a bow is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Brass section

The brass section of the orchestra, concert band, and jazz ensemble consist of brass instruments, and is one of the main sections in all three ensembles.

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Breathing

Breathing (spiration or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into (inhalation) and out of (exhalation) the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.

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Cabasa

The cabasa, similar to the shekere, is a percussion instrument that is constructed with loops of steel ball chain wrapped around a wooden cylinder.

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Calliope (music)

A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is a North American musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles—originally locomotive whistles.

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Castanets

Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music.

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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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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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China cymbal

China type cymbals from three continents In western music, a China cymbal (or Chinese cymbal) is a distinct type of crash cymbal designed to produce a bright, crisp, and explosive tone that has brought it the nickname trash cymbal.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Chorus (audio effect)

Chorus (or chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) is an audio effect that occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches, converge.

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Clapping

A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.

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Claves

Claves are a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, wooden sticks about 20–25 centimeters (8–10 inches) long and about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in diameter.

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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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Close back rounded vowel

The close back rounded vowel, or high back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.

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Coast

A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Communication protocol

A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity.

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Comparison of MIDI standards

This table provides summary of comparison of various MIDI enhancement standards by various parameters. General MIDI and comparison of MIDI standards are MIDI standards.

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Conga

The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.

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Cor anglais

The cor anglais (or original; plural: cors anglais) Longman has /kɔːz/ for British and /kɔːrz/ for American -->, or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.

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Cowbell (instrument)

The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music, such as Latin and rock.

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Crash cymbal

A crash cymbal is a type of cymbal that produces a loud, sharp "crash" and is used mainly for occasional accents, as opposed to a ride cymbal.

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Cuíca

The cuíca is a Brazilian friction drum with a large pitch range, produced by changing tension on the head of the drum.

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Cutoff frequency

In physics and electrical engineering, a cutoff frequency, corner frequency, or break frequency is a boundary in a system's frequency response at which energy flowing through the system begins to be reduced (attenuated or reflected) rather than passing through.

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Digital audio workstation

A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Drop (liquid)

A drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces.

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Drum stick

A drum stick (or drumstick) is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit, and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion.

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Echo

In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound.

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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.

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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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Electric piano

An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into electrical signals by pickups (either magnetic, electrostatic, or piezoelectric).

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Electronic drum

Electronic drums are a modern electronic musical instrument, primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit.

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Electronic keyboard

An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments.

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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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Envelope (music)

In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.

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Fender Stratocaster

The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Filter (signal processing)

In signal processing, a filter is a device or process that removes some unwanted components or features from a signal.

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Floor tom

A floor tom or low tom is a double-headed tom-tom drum which usually stands on the floor on three legs.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Frequency modulation synthesis

Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator.

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Fret

A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.

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Fretless bass

A fretless bass is an electric bass guitar whose neck is smooth like traditional string instruments, and like the acoustic upright double bass.

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Güiro

The güiro is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.

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General MIDI Level 2

General MIDI Level 2 or GM2 is a specification for synthesizers which defines several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard and is based on General MIDI, GS extensions, and XG extensions. General MIDI and General MIDI Level 2 are MIDI standards.

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Glass harmonica

The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from ἁρμονία, harmonia, the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones).

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Glockenspiel

The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.

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Goblin

A goblin is a small, grotesque, monstrous creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Gunshot

A gunshot is a single discharge of a gun, typically a man-portable firearm, producing a visible flash, a powerful and loud shockwave and often chemical gunshot residue.

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Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.

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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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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock.

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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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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.

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Hi-hat

A hi-hat (hihat, high-hat, etc.) is a combination of two cymbals and a pedal, all mounted on a metal stand.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.

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Japan MIDI Standards Committee

The Japan MIDI Standards Committee (JMSC) is the body that ratifies and proposes MIDI standards within the Japanese manufacturing and developer community.

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Jingle bell

A jingle bell or sleigh bell is a type of bell which produces a distinctive 'jingle' sound, especially in large numbers.

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Keyboard bass

Keyboard bass (shortened to keybass and sometimes referred as a synth bass) is the use of a smaller, low-pitched keyboard with fewer notes than a regular keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the deep notes of a bass guitar or double bass in music.

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Koto (instrument)

The is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan.

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Lead instrument

The term lead instrument carries a variety of connotations.

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Maraca

A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.

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Marcato

Marcato (short form: Marc.; Italian for marked) is a musical instruction indicating a note, chord, or passage is to be played louder or more forcefully than the surrounding music.

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Marimba

The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.

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Mbira

Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

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Metronome

A metronome is a device that produces an audible click or other sound at a uniform interval that can be set by the user, typically in beats per minute (BPM).

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music. General MIDI and MIDI are Japanese inventions.

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MIDI Manufacturers Association

The MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) is a non-profit trade organization where companies work together to create MIDI standards that assure compatibility among MIDI products.

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Modulation

In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a separate signal called the modulation signal that typically contains information to be transmitted.

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Music box

A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or ''lamellae'') of a steel comb.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Musical note

In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music.

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Mute (music)

A mute is a device attached to a musical instrument which changes the instrument's tone quality (timbre) or lowers its volume.

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New-age music

New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Ocarina

The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Open central unrounded vowel

The open central unrounded vowel, or low central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in many spoken languages.

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Orchestra hit

An orchestra hit, also known as an orchestral hit, orchestra stab, or orchestral stab, is a synthesized sound created through the layering of the sounds of a number of different orchestral instruments playing a single staccato note or chord.

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Organ (music)

Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones.

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Palm mute

The palm mute is a technique for guitar and bass guitar known for its muted sound.

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Pan flute

A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).

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Panning (audio)

Panning is the distribution of an audio signal (either monaural or stereophonic pairs) into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field determined by a pan control setting.

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Pedal harp

The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technologically modern harp, designed primarily for use in art music.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Perfect fifth

In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so.

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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.

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Piano pedals

Piano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that change the instrument's sound in various ways.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.

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Pitched percussion instrument

A pitched percussion instrument (also known as a melodic or tuned percussion instrument) is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is used to produce sounds of indefinite pitch.

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Pizzicato

Pizzicato (translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.

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Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Polyphony and monophony in instruments

Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously.

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Pump organ

The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.

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Q factor

In physics and engineering, the quality factor or Q factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how underdamped an oscillator or resonator is.

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Rain

Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.

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Reed aerophone

Reed aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.

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Reverberation

Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.

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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.

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Ride cymbal

The ride cymbal is a cymbal of material sustain used to maintain a beat in music.

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Rimshot

A rimshot is a percussion technique used to produce an accented snare drum backbeat.

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Ringtone

A ringtone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming telephone call.

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Roland D-50

The Roland D-50 is a synthesizer produced by Roland and released in April of 1987.

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Roland Jazz Chorus

Roland Jazz Chorus is the name given to a series of solid-state instrument amplifiers produced by the Roland Corporation in Japan since 1975.

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Roland Sound Canvas

The lineup is a series of General MIDI (GM) based pulse-code modulation (PCM) sound modules and sound cards, primarily intended for computer music usage, created by Japanese manufacturer Roland Corporation.

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Santoor

The Indian santoor instrument is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer, and a variation of the Iranian santur.

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Sawtooth wave

The sawtooth wave (or saw wave) is a kind of non-sinusoidal waveform.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scratching

Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds.

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Shaker (musical instrument)

The word shaker describes various percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music.

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Shakuhachi

A is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo.

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Shamisen

The, also known as or (all meaning "three strings"), is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument.

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Shehnai

The shehnai, often translated into English as clarinet, is a musical instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Simmons (electronic drum company)

Simmons is an electronic drum brand, which originally was a pioneering British manufacturer of electronic drums.

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Sitar

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.

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Slapping (music)

Slapping and popping are ways to produce percussive sounds on a stringed instrument.

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Snare drum

The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.

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Soft pedal

The soft pedal or, is one pedal on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals.

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Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Sound module

A sound module is an electronic musical instrument without a human-playable interface such as a piano-style musical keyboard.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

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Specification (technical standard)

A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service.

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Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

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Splash cymbal

In a drum kit, splash cymbals are the smallest accent cymbals, often a smaller derivative of the more common crash cymbals.

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Square wave

A square wave is a non-sinusoidal periodic waveform in which the amplitude alternates at a steady frequency between fixed minimum and maximum values, with the same duration at minimum and maximum.

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Steel-string acoustic guitar

The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.

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Steelpan

The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago.

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String (music)

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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String synthesizer

A string synthesizer or string machine is a specialized synthesizer designed specifically to make sounds similar to that of a string orchestra.

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Surdo

The surdo is a bass drum or a large floor tom-like drum used in many kinds of Brazilian music, such as Axé/Samba-reggae and samba, where it plays the lower parts from a percussion section.

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Suspended cymbal

Classical suspended cymbal A suspended cymbal is any single cymbal played with a stick or beater rather than struck against another cymbal.

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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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Tack piano

A tack piano (also known as a harpsipiano, jangle piano, and junk piano) is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the hammers hit the strings, giving the instrument a tinny, more percussive sound.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI

Also known as General MIDI 1, General MIDI Level 1, MIDI GM, Registered Parameter Number.

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