Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
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found: New Grove dict. of mus. online(Synthesizer [synthesiser]: electronic instrument, usually incorporating a keyboard; some earlier electronic instruments that were called "synthesizer" are better classified as composition machines, as their sounds are not produced in real time)
found: New Harvard dict. of mus.:(An instrument that produces sounds, modifies them, and in some circumstances orders them in time by purely electronic means.)
found: Oxford companion to mus. WWW site, Jul. 1, 2011:(A term that may be used to describe any grouping of electronic devices for the purposes of sound synthesis.)
found: Wikipedia, Jul. 1, 2011:(A synthesizer (often abbreviated "synth") is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies.)
found: Garland Encycl. of World Mus., v. 1:(Ethnomusicological recourse to sound-synthesizer technology ...)
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2003-09-17: new
2011-09-02: revised
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