Acoustic Rock is essentially Rock music with acoustic instrumentation, as opposed to the electric instrumentation typical of the genre. Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym “acoustic music” appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ, and synthesizer. Acoustic string instrumentations had long been a subset of popular…
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