Talk:Electronic musical instrument/Archive 1

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The Telharmonium used passive components, not electronic ones. Therefore it is an electric rather than electronic musical instrument. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.6.152 (talk) 00:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Maybe the radiodrum should be mentioned142.104.250.115 17:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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This article and the somewhat bigger Synthesizer article cover the same area and should probably be merged now.

I have now done a fairly brutal merge of the content of the two articles into one. -- The Anome

Perhaps this was a bad idea. Synthesizers ought to have their own subject. They are only a subset of this topic. -- -D

Nearly all of the links and references on this page are now dead.---JM —Preceding undated comment added 01:34, 26 April 2011 (UTC).

I just broke the synthesizer information back into a separate page. Not only was this article linking to the non-existant synthesizer article (which was simply redirecting back to this page), but it was unnecessarily creating a mega-article. Electronic musical instrument covers a lot of ground, including electric guitars, electronic organs, and a pile of other things in addition to synthesizers. Synthesizer is a very specific topic that certainly deserves its own page (which should point to other topics like Analog synthesizer and Digital synthesizer)Instead of having all of that info here, this article serves as a great overview of the history of electronic instruments, and a good jumping-off point to learn more about specific instruments on their own pages. I realize that this is going to necessitate some editing and even a small amount of overlap between the articles, but I think it's worthwhile. I hope nobody minds. -D

Fine by me - you seem to be adding structure, which is always good. The Anome


 * WHAT IS ELECTRONIC? I would argue that electric guitars are not electronic instruments. Electronic instruments source signals with electronics; electric guitars do not. Their active components are mechanical oscillators - physical strings - the vibrations of which are magnetically converted to AC voltages sent to very simple passive routing and filtering circuitry. An "electronic guitar" would use active electronic oscillators (at the very least); the strings' motions would be sensed to (at the very least) control their frequencies just as a keyswitches control a synth's oscillators.

While I'm writing this, I'll add: this article certainly deserves better than a C status. It scope is more than adequate and it fairly comprehensively covers this very broad topic while never becoming overwhelming. If anyone is still doing ratings on Wikipedia, that is. Twang (talk) 03:20, 11 June 2014 (UTC)


 * There is some discussion of electric vs. electronic at Electric instrument. I'm not convinced that the distinction as seen in reliable sources is as crisp as you claim.


 * Please see WP:BCLASS. I did a little walk into the article and discovered issues beginning in the lead and didn't make it much further before I was ready to move on. I'll try to help out more later but this is definitely not ready for a B rating. ~KvnG 15:14, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Vandalism on 20:03, March 29, 2005 210.11.188.18
It appears this article was vandalized on 20:03, March 29, 2005 by user 210.11.188.18 and it was never caught. I think the missing content from the previous edit should be readded. I intend to do so unless someone else beats me to it or the edit can be explained. --Trweiss 22:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Electric and electronic are two different things; I suggest either this be mentioned or the page be split to accommodate this.

Piotr

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