How to Choose
The awakening of passion for music is like the first serious love. You are ready to devote all your free time to a new hobby, plan a long and happy future together, but at the same time you are afraid that some awkward action will suddenly destroy the magic. It really is.It is worth making a mistake in choosing a tool, and it will break dreams of a ruthless reality. Buy too primitive - it will limit your development even before you reach a noticeable result. Take one that is too expensive and venerable - and you will be disappointed by how modest your first successes sound for such a significant investment.We will tell you how beginners not to make a mistake when buying their first tool in an online store. Following our simple tips, you can easily pick up your equipment to enter into a long and, most importantly, harmonious relationship with music.
How to choose a guitar amp (amplifier)
A combo is a guitar amplifier in which the sound amplifier itself and the speaker from which we hear sounds are located in the same case. Most amps can have a variety of guitar effects built in, ranging from simple overdrives to very sophisticated sounding processors. In this article, the experts of the store “Student” will tell you how to choose a guitar combo amplifier that is right for you, and not overpay at the same time. combo amplifier device Most guitar amps have the following controls: standard input socket for jack 6.3 format , for connecting a cable from a guitar to a mobile phone power switch/switch overdrive effect controls headphone output jack knobs that change low, medium and high frequencies…
How to choose an accordion
The accordion is a keyboard-wind musical instrument, consisting of two boxes, connecting bellows and two keyboards: a push-button keyboard for the left hand, a piano-type keyboard for the right hand. An accordion with a push -button type on the right keyboard is called an accordion. Accordion Accordion The very name ” accordion “ (in French “accordeon”) means “hand harmonica”. So called it in 1829 in Vienna master Cyril Demian , when together with his sons Guido and Karl he made an harmonica with chord accompaniment in his left hand. Since then, all harmonicas that had chord accompaniment have been called accordions in many countries . If we count from the date of the name of the instrument, then it is already more than 180 years old, i.e. almost two centuries.…
How to choose a saxophone
The saxophone is a reed wind musical instrument that, according to the principle of sound production, belongs to the family of reed woodwind musical instruments. The saxophone family was designed in 1842 by the Belgian musical master Adolphe Sax and patented by him four years later. Adolphe Sax Since the middle of the 19th century, the saxophone has been used in a brass band, less often in a symphony, also as a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra (ensemble). It is one of the main instruments of jazz and related genres, as well as pop music. In this article, the experts of the store “Student” will tell you how to choose exactly the saxophone that you need, and not overpay at the same time.…
How to choose cymbals for your drum kit
Cymbals are a percussion musical instrument with an indefinite pitch. Plates have been known since ancient times , found in Armenia (VII century BC), China, India, later in Greece and Turkey. They are a convex-shaped disk made of special alloys by casting and subsequent forging. There is a hole in the center of the cymbal for fixing the instrument on a special stand. Among the main techniques of the game: hitting suspended cymbals with various sticks and mallets, hitting paired cymbals against each other, playing with a bow. In jargon, musicians sometimes call a set of cymbals “iron” In this article, the experts of the store “Student” will tell you how to choose the drum cymbals that you need, and not overpay at the…
How to choose a screen for a projector
A projection screen is a flat or curved light-scattering surface on which an enlarged image of a film frame, slide, picture, etc. is created using a projector . There are reflective and light-transmitting screens. Reflective screens have an opaque base, well reflect the light flux falling on them almost evenly in all directions within an angle of 180 °. The image on them is viewed from the side of the projection apparatus. Such screens are installed in all cinemas, except for daytime cinemas, in which films are shown on a light-transmitting screen. The surface of reflective screens, as a rule, is white-matte. Light-transmitting screens are made of frosted glass, translucent plastic or film-coated fabric. They transmit light rays well, almost without…
How to choose a cello
Cello (it. violoncello) bowed musical instrument with four strings, shaped like a large violin. Medium in register and size between a violin and a double bass. The appearance of the cello dates back to the beginning of the 16th century. Initially, it was used as a bass instrument to accompany singing or playing an instrument of a higher register . There were numerous varieties of the cello, which differed from each other in size, number of strings, and tuning (the most common tuning was a tone lower than the modern one). In the 17th-18th centuries, the efforts of the outstanding musical masters of the Italian schools (Nicolo Amati, Giuseppe Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari, Carlo Bergonzi, Domenico Montagnana, and others) created a classical…
How to choose a classical guitar
The classical (Spanish, six-string) guitar is a stringed plucked musical instrument. The main representative of the family of guitars in general and acoustic guitars in particular. In its modern form, it has existed since the second half of the 18th century, it is used as a solo, ensemble and accompanying instrument. The guitar has great artistic and performing capabilities and a wide variety of timbres . The main differences from an acoustic guitar are the nylon strings, the wide neck , and the shape of the body. A classical guitar has six strings, the main structure of which is e1, b, g, d, A, E (mi of the first octave, si, salt, re of a small octave, la, mi of a large octave). A number…
How to choose a midi keyboard
A midi keyboard is a type of keyboard instrument that allows the musician to play the keys using the sounds stored in the computer. MIDI is a language by which a musical instrument and a computer understand each other. Midi (from English midi, musical instrument digital interface – translated as Musical Instrumental Sound Interface). The word interface means interaction, exchange of information. The computer and midi keyboard are connected to each other by a wire, through which they exchange information. Selecting the sound of a specific musical instrument on the computer and pressing a key on the midi keyboard, you will hear this sound. The usual number of keys on midi keyboards is from 25 to 88. If you want…
How to choose a vocal microphone
A microphone (from the Greek μικρός – small, φωνη – voice) is an electro-acoustic device that converts sound vibrations into electrical ones and is used to transmit sounds over long distances or to amplify them in telephones, broadcasting and sound recording systems. The most common type of microphone and at the moment is a dynamic microphone , the advantages of which include their good quality indicators: strength, small size and weight, low susceptibility to vibrations and shaking, a wide range of perceived frequencies, which makes it possible to use this type of microphone as well as in studios and outdoors when recording open concerts and reports In this article, the experts of the store “Student” will tell you how to…
How to choose a balalaika
Balalaika is a Russian folk stringed musical instrument. The length of balalaikas is very different: from 600-700 mm ( prima balalaika ) to 1.7 meters ( subcontrabass balalaika ) in length, with a triangular slightly curved (also oval in the 18th-19th centuries) wooden case. The body of the balalaika is glued together from separate (6-7) segments, the head of the long fingerboard a is slightly bent back. Metal strings (In the 18th century, two of them were veined; modern balalaikas have nylon or carbon strings). On the neck of the modern balalaika there are 16-31 metal frets (until the end of the 19th century – 5-7 frets ). There is no single point of view on the time of the appearance of the balalaika. It is believed that the balalaika has…
