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Blog 3 Cuenca
I chose the drums as a musical instrument that I would like to talk about. Drums have been with us since as far as 6000 BC when Mesopotamian explorers dug up “cylinder like” objects from the ground. There are many types of drums as well such as a bass drum, snare drum, bongo, and many […]
Blog 3 Singh
The technology I chose to focus on is the radio. The purpose of a radio is generally to wirelessly transmit/convey information from one place to another. It made communication over distances a lot easier, similar to that of the telegraph and the telephone; It’s important to acknowledge that the information being communicated varied depended on […]
Blog 3 Hoq
The synthesizer, a piece of musical technology, has a significant impact on majority of the songs created in modern day. A synthesizer is an electrical musical instrument that produces audio signals which is then transformed into sounds. One of the earliest synthesizers was invented during the 1870s by an American electrical engineer named Elisha Gray. […]
Blog 3 Hong
I picked the ukulele as the instrument to analyze. Compared to a guitar, a ukulele is smaller, usually has only four strings with different tuning, and uses different materials for some parts of the instrument. The strings in particular are usually made of a fibrous, more “plastic-like” material, whereas guitars have metallic strings. While these […]
Blog 3 Mari
The musical technology I decided to talk about is the piano. The piano was invented during the early 18th century by a man named Bartolomeo Cristofori. A piano is a large keyboard musical instrument that has metal strings and makes a sound when struck by the hammer and it has a wooden case that encloses […]
Blog 3 Valenzuela
GarageBand is a musical technology software developed and released by Apple. GarageBand is a software program that is similar to that of FL Studio, Fruity Loops, etc, in the sense of a program that allows the user to create music. What differentiates GarageBand from those other softwares, is that it is more user friendly and […]
Reynoso Blog 3
The piece of musical technology that I want to use, is distortion, within the world of guitars as musical instruments. Distortion is an effect, that when electric guitars are put through it, sound much more gritty, and therefore can be used as an alternative to a clean guitar sound. Distortion itself, is the result of […]
Gaught Blog 3
Music Technology has been expanding in the our generation and is opening many doors to a career in music. Auto-Tone is one of the music technology. Auto-Tune uses a device to measure and change in the recording. There are digital signals that change the sound and the frequency corrects the pitch. It has taken over […]
Blog 3 Hannon
The instrument I have chosen is the trombone. The trombone is part of the brass family and was created in Burgundy the late 1400s. It is based off the instrument known as the side trumpet and was considered an improved version. The original name for the trombone was sackbut. The trombone is a very popular […]
Barrera Blog 3
The electric guitar was first created by George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker. This guitar is able to be played the way it is because of a branch of physics called electromagnetism, which is also one of nature’s four fundamental forces. Under the strings of the body of the guitar, there are electromagnets. When the strings are […]
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