Prepared guitar
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A prepared guitar is a guitar that has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques. This practice is sometimes called
A prepared guitar
A Home Swinger, 3rd bridge zither
Prepared piano
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A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced
Prepared guitar
…The idea of altering an instrument's timbre through the use of external objects has been applied to other instruments as well, most notably John Cage's prepared piano, which preceded the prepared guitar. With prepared guitars, one of the key goals in preparing the instrument is changing its timbre – the fundamental…
Andrea Neumann's preparations, where pieces of cutlery are placed between piano strings