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Acoustic music comprises music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 that solely or primarily uses instrument
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
s which produce sound through entirely acoustic
Musical acoustics

Musical acoustics or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music ? how sounds employed as music work....
 means, as opposed to electronic
Electronic

Electronic may refer to:*Electronics, devices that work by controlling the flow of electrons*Electronic music or electronica*Electronic ,**or their self-titled debut album Electronic ...
 means. The retronym
Retronym

A retronym is the modification of the original name of an object or concept to differentiate it from a more recent version of the object, which acquired a modifier or adjective through later developments of the object or concept itself....
 "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar
Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
, Hammond organ
Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electronic organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to Church as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, Rock and r...
 and the synthesiser. Given the relatively recent appearance of electronic instruments
Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. In contrast, the term electric instrument is used to mean instruments whose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified or altered electronically - for example an electric guitar....
 in the history of music
History of music

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Scientists now believe that modern humans emerged from Africa 160,000 years ago....
, one can classify almost all musical instruments and consequently almost all music as "acoustic".

Performers of acoustic music may still amplify their output using electronic amplifier
Electronic amplifier

An electronic amplifier is a device for increasing the Power and/or amplitude of a Signal . It does this by taking energy from a power supply and controlling the output to match the input signal shape but with a larger amplitude....
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Acoustic music comprises music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 that solely or primarily uses instrument
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
s which produce sound through entirely acoustic
Musical acoustics

Musical acoustics or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music ? how sounds employed as music work....
 means, as opposed to electronic
Electronic

Electronic may refer to:*Electronics, devices that work by controlling the flow of electrons*Electronic music or electronica*Electronic ,**or their self-titled debut album Electronic ...
 means. The retronym
Retronym

A retronym is the modification of the original name of an object or concept to differentiate it from a more recent version of the object, which acquired a modifier or adjective through later developments of the object or concept itself....
 "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar
Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
, Hammond organ
Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electronic organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to Church as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, Rock and r...
 and the synthesiser. Given the relatively recent appearance of electronic instruments
Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. In contrast, the term electric instrument is used to mean instruments whose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified or altered electronically - for example an electric guitar....
 in the history of music
History of music

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Scientists now believe that modern humans emerged from Africa 160,000 years ago....
, one can classify almost all musical instruments and consequently almost all music as "acoustic".

Performers of acoustic music may still amplify their output using electronic amplifier
Electronic amplifier

An electronic amplifier is a device for increasing the Power and/or amplitude of a Signal . It does this by taking energy from a power supply and controlling the output to match the input signal shape but with a larger amplitude....
s. However, these amplification devices must remain separate from the amplified instrument and need to reproduce its natural sound accurately.

Following the increasing popularity of the television show MTV Unplugged
MTV Unplugged

MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. It was produced by Viacom and was directed by Beth McCarthy....
  during the 1990s, acoustic (though in most cases still electrically-amplified) performances by artist
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s who usually rely on electronic instruments became colloquially referred to as "unplugged" concerts.

Someone labeling music as "acoustic" or as "unplugged" may make an implied contrast to music that has become "cluttered" by technology and overproduction
Overproduction (music)

In music journalism, the term overproduction refers to music that allegedly uses excessive amounts of audio effects, layering, or digital manipulation....
: in this sense, some may consider acoustic music more sonically "pure".