===List Of Acoustic Principles ===

Here is a list of pages that describe some musical principles that are important to making unusual instruments. This page will feature short articles describing these principles and the ways that each of these principles has a tendency to be pronounced in [[idiosyncrasy|idiosyncratic]] musical instruments. \\

[[Steel Resonator]]- Instruments that use a large sheet of metal (most commonly steel) as a resonator, this technique gives a very distinct timbre to the instruments. \\  

[[Timbre Modifier]]- A part of an instrument that alters the character of its sound without that part being related to the sound source, a [[Mirliton]] and [[rattle tines]] are examples of these. \\

[[Raunch]]- "Rauchification" or "Rauchifies" is used by [[Bart Hopkin]] to define the vulgar buzzing sound that can be given to a tongue or tine when it chatters against another hard surface.\\ 

[[Jivari]]- The Braying, growling, snarling, or buzzing quality of sound produced by a string that have a bridge that produces spectral sounds, such as the bridges used in Indian instruments. ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jivari#Effect)) \\

[[Mirliton]]- A membrane used to modify the timbre of a musical instrument often found on woodwinds and marimbas. \\

[[Rattle Tine]]- is a loose scrap of metal that vibrates against a tine on a lamellophone to modify the timbre of the tines. \\

[[Bowed Tongues]]- Bowed [[lamellophone|lamellophones]], instruments with a solid bars or rods that are mounted on one side with each of these tongues bowed. \\

[[Interference]]- Generating specific pitches that interact in unique ways [[Difference Tones]] are an example of this.\\

[[Combination Tones]]- When two or more differently pitched tones generate additional imaginary tones due to the way the pitches are perceived. \\

[[Interface]]- The way a player interacts with an instrument.\\

[[Sound Synthesizer]] \\

[[Circuit Bending]]\\

[[Idiosyncrasy]]\\

[[Corporeal]]- an instrument that cant really play any kind of discrete musical songs but instead is defined simply by the timbre and behavior of its output (think like an aeolian harp). \\

[[Slides]]\\

[[Pitch Continuum]]- The ability to produce any pitch within an instruments range. Instruments can be able to do this to a degree or completely. \\
[[Pitch Fluid]]- The ability to move smoothly between pitches in an instruments range, like [[Pitch Continuum]], but in motion between one or many pitches. \\
[[Unstable Pitch|Unstable Tonal Center]]- Also called unstable pitch. Instruments that are intentionally unstable in pitch and make repeating specific pitches difficult. This produces a sense on instability as scales are difficult to play consistently. \\ 

[[Ghost Tones]]- Secondary pitches that can be heard on string instruments that are generated by the inactive sections of strings. \\ 

[[Free String]]- A string that is only mounted on one side, with the other held down by a movable force such as being tied to a rock and the force of gravity acting on the string to give it tension. \\

[[3rd Bridge]] \\

[[Nonuniform strings]]\\ 

[[Longitudinal Vibration]]- Fundamental behavior of such instruments as the [[Long-String Instrument]] and [[Cristal Baschet]], commonly found on string instruments as well as glass tines.\\

[[Electromechanical]] \\ 

[[One Man Band]]\\

[[Springs|Springs and Coils]]\\

[[Membranes]]\\ 

[[Water]] \\

[[Xenharmonic]]\\

[[Prepared]]- An instrument that has its sound temporarily altered by placing objects on or in it, for instance wedging screws between the strings of a piano as seen on prepared piano. This technique is typically temporary.  \\ 


[[Indiscrete]]- An instrument that doesn't have easily definable separate parts. \\

[[Fungible]]- the property of an instrument having various parts, or the instrument itself, easily replaceable with another that are indiscernible from the original. These are often also Indescrete. \\

[[Self Contained]]- Instruments that are not interacted with directly by players or listeners and not intended to be accompanied in any kind of ensemble.\\
This is a prevalent theme in [[sound sculpture|Sound Sculptures]], where the sound is considered an artwork. \\

[[Stochastic]]- Instruments that produce highly random sounds that have little to know detectable pattern to what they produce. Also applies to instruments that are impossible to control the sound of beyond a small amount of control of such things as volume, and turning the sound on and off. \\

[[lowercase]]- The use of very quiet materials as musical instruments. this is most often significantly amplified. There is often a material philosophy of hearing essential sounds of those objects. \\

[[Essential sound]]- A sound philosophy about the sound produced on an instrument being only due to a principle quality of the instruments materials itself. 

[[Sound Sculpture]]- Any sound making object that is a piece of art, often with the sound generated being considered an artwork rather then or in addition to music. \\

[[Stratification]]- Certain instruments tend to exist only in specific cultural contexts or with specific groups. \\

[[Site Specific]]- An instrument that can only exist in one specific place (for example the Zadar Sea Organ), for this term the idea of it being made out of materials of that location is also relevant. \\

[[Iterative]]- An instrument that has many versions with varying changes, usually small changes. This applies to instruments made with trial and error building methods. \\

[[Vernacular instrument]] 


[[Transmuted]] 

[[Faceless Company]]- A strategy common with electronic synthesizers and micro controllers where the instruments are released without any available reference to any individual makers. This is often accompanied by lack of information on who performers, makers, and composers are using the instrument in question in promotional materials, purposefully obfuscating them for the benefit of the unknown parties. ((example- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXXV8XpgzR4)) ((example 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2gKMy573I))\\

[[Trash Orchestra]]- Ensembles that have a specific aesthetic involving primarily using found materials, garbage, and also have a dominate theme of eco-friendliness, environmentalism and recycling.  \\

[[Tonal Maximum]]- When the Timbre and tuning of an instrument is taken to the maximum clarity and precision, this is a philosophy against chaotic, uncontrolled, and dissonant sound qualities in an instrument. This is the opposite of nurturing [[turbulence]].  \\

[[Turbulence]]- The use of chaos to generate a dissonant, uncontrolled, and cacophonous timbre in musical instruments, prevalent in experimental wind instruments. This is the opposite approach to [[Tonal Maximum]]. This is the wind equivalence to [[Raunch]] which is found on strings and tines.\\

[[Universal Music]]-

[[Alternative Music Theory]]-

[[Future Primitive]]- 

[[Instrument Spiritualism]]- There are a great many unusual instruments made for alternative or new age spiritual purposes, these instruments are often pentatonic, play puretone harmonics, and produce long droning sounds. These instruments are made prmarily to suit a spiritual purpose. Examples include the [[panart|Felix Rohner]] and [[panart|Sabina Schärer]], inventors of the [[panart|Hang Drum]], the instruments of [[Robin Armstrong]], [[Constance Demby]], [[Katie Grinnan]], and [[Francisco Lupica]].\\

[[Instrument Shaped Object]]- Instrument Shaped Objects (ISO for short) are instruments that have almost no ability to play, but has been made to look like they functions well or even like theya re professionally made musical instruments. \\

A term for wacky/ridiculous instrument that look outlandish but sound relatively normal (weird guitars, cigar box guitars, carrot clarinets ect.. ) \\

[[Tinkerer]]- A person who takes an existing instrument and alters it to their needs, often done as an experiment \\

A term for a person who primarily improves existing instruments and attempt to maximize range and color on them (like [[Richard Bobo]] or [[Jared De Leon]])\\ 

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===In Need of Terms===

a word for instruments that are intentionally against high craftsmanship or that avoid using difficult constructions methods, DIY instrument look \\ 
A word for instruments made from scavenged materials, maybe something that emphasizes the tendency for the instruments to look like a conglomeration of unrelated parts/ objects assembled together. assemblage? \\
A word for the philosophy of hearing essential sounds of an object. Such that the sound made is the inherent and most primal sound of that thing. \\
Something about musicians who make work that is saturated with unique and difficult to identify sound sources, making it cacophonous and filled with unfamiliar sounds (think [[Hans Reichel]]'s Yuxo or some of the musical work of [[Bart Hopkin]]. Often this style of music is eerie and creepy. A term like [[Phantasmagoria]] of sound may apply. \\ 
A term for when an instrument translates one type of input into sound, such as transforming light into sound, or a painting, or data ect.. \\
Sound based intervention in an environment (like Akio Suzuki ((https://youtu.be/82mwjKauc2s))) \\

