Acoustic Music question

[digitalsnipe]

I started a thread on the Song Writing forum asking for the definition of acoustic music from those guys over there. Anyone here care to give some explanation? Just because a piece is played on an acoustic guitar doesn't necessarily define it. Classical Gas performed on a dread is still a classical piece and not Acoustical Gas. Any takers?

[guitarcapo]

instruments that don't require electronics to get their primary tone.

[digitalsnipe]

Originally posted by guitarcapo instruments that don't require electronics to get their primary tone.

 

 

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That defines the acoustic sound. What about the music? The inference is any music that does not require electronics to produce the primary tone? That's where I'm a little slow on the uptake. So, the mandoline, banjo, violin and any other stringed instrument sans electronics is acoustic, in the technical sense, but is there a particular style or genre defining acoustic guitar music? I just don't subscribe to the technical definition that groups a banjo in with my notion of acoustic music.

[slider]

you notion of acoustic music is too narrow.