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-[[Dub]]: The [[mixing desk]] as an instrument and the [[DJ]]/[[remixer]] as an artist. -- [[John McCready]], +"[[Dub music|Dub]]: The [[Mixing console|mixing desk]] as an [[musical instrument|instrument]] and the [[Disc jockey|DJ]]/[[remix]]er as an artist." -- "[[A Bluffers Guide to Dub]]" (2000) by John McCready
-[[A Bluffers Guide to Dub]][https://web.archive.org/web/20090209024016/http://www.mccready.cwc.net/bgt-dub.html], 2000+
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-"I see the [[recording studio|studio]] must be like a living thing, a life itself. The [[machine]] must be live and intelligent. Then I put my mind into the machine and the machine perform reality. Invisible thought waves - you put them into the machine by sending them through the controls and the knobs or you jack it into the jack panel. The jack panel is the brain itself, so you got to patch up the brain and make the brain a living man, that the brain can take what you sending into it and live." --[[Lee Perry]], unidentified+
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-"...ever since [[Miles Davis]] and [[James Brown]] transferred their primary creative space from stage to [[Recording studio|studio]], the most succesful musical form in the popular arena has been the dance-groove : where cycles of rhythm, circling ever back to their beginnings, allow for small shifts and changes within the structure to bring with them remarkable shock-force." ([[Hopey Glass]] in [[The Wire]]). +
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Musical instrument classification is a discipline in its own right, and many systems of classification have been used over the years. Instruments can be classified by their effective range, their material composition, their size, etc. However, the most common academic method, Hornbostel-Sachs, uses the means by which they produce sound. The academic study of musical instruments is called [[organology]]. Musical instrument classification is a discipline in its own right, and many systems of classification have been used over the years. Instruments can be classified by their effective range, their material composition, their size, etc. However, the most common academic method, Hornbostel-Sachs, uses the means by which they produce sound. The academic study of musical instruments is called [[organology]].
 +==Instrument (general)==
 +'''Instrument''' may refer to:
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 +==Science and technology==
 +* [[Flight instruments]], the devices used to measure the speed, altitude, and pertinent flight angles of various kinds of aircraft
 +* [[Laboratory equipment]], the measuring tools used in a scientific laboratory, often electronic in nature
 +* [[Mathematical instrument]], devices used in geometric construction or measurements in astronomy, surveying and navigation
 +* [[Measuring instrument]], a device used to measure or compare physical properties
 +* [[Medical instrument]], a device used to diagnose or treat diseases
 +* [[Optical instrument]], relies on the properties of light
 +* [[Quantum instrument]], a mathematical object in quantum theory combining the concepts of measurement and quantum operation
 +* [[Scientific instrument]], a device used to collect scientific data
 +* [[Surgical instrument]]
 +* [[Vehicle instrument]], a device measuring parameters of a vehicle, such as its speed or position
 +* [[Weather instrument]], a device used to record aspects of the weather
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 +==Music==
 +* [[Musical instrument]], a device designed to produce musical sounds
 +** [[Experimental musical instrument ]]
 +** [[Percussion instrument]], which is struck
 +** [[String instrument]], uses vibrating strings
 +** [[Transposing instrument]], allows music to be played in a different key
 +** [[Wind instrument]], which is blown
 +*** [[Brass instrument]], a sub type of wind instruments
 +*** [[Woodwind instrument]], another sub type
 +* [[Instrument (album)|''Instrument'' (album)]], by To Rococo Rot, 2014
 +* ''[[Instrument Soundtrack]]'', 1999 album by American band Fugazi
 +* [[Instrument 1]], a MIDI controller designed by Artiphon
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 +==Other uses==
 +* [[Financial instrument]], a formal documentation of a financial transaction
 +* [[Legal instrument]], a formal documentation of a status or transaction
 +* [[Tool]]
==See also== ==See also==
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*[[Music instrument technology]] *[[Music instrument technology]]
*[[Orchestra]] *[[Orchestra]]
 +*[[Humani Victus Instrumenta]], prints by Arcimboldo
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A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates to the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for ritual, such as a trumpet to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony. Cultures eventually developed composition and performance of melodies for entertainment. Musical instruments evolved in step with changing applications.

The date and origin of the first device considered a musical instrument is disputed. The oldest object that some scholars refer to as a musical instrument, a simple flute, dates back as far as 67,000 years. Some consensus dates early flutes to about 37,000 years ago. However, most historians believe that determining a specific time of musical instrument invention is impossible due to the subjectivity of the definition and the relative instability of materials used to make them. Many early musical instruments were made from animal skins, bone, wood, and other non-durable materials.

Musical instruments developed independently in many populated regions of the world. However, contact among civilizations caused rapid spread and adaptation of most instruments in places far from their origin. By the Middle Ages, instruments from Mesopotamia were in maritime Southeast Asia, and Europeans played instruments from North Africa. Development in the Americas occurred at a slower pace, but cultures of North, Central, and South America shared musical instruments. By 1400, musical instrument development slowed in many areas and was dominated by the Occident.

Musical instrument classification is a discipline in its own right, and many systems of classification have been used over the years. Instruments can be classified by their effective range, their material composition, their size, etc. However, the most common academic method, Hornbostel-Sachs, uses the means by which they produce sound. The academic study of musical instruments is called organology.

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Instrument may refer to:

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Music

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