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by PokerPaul on December 16th, 2005

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What is the difference between electrics and electronics?

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  • by MatrixFrog on January 17th, 2006

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    I don't know a general answer to this question, but I can tell you the difference between an electric guitar and an electronic piano, which may shed some light.

    On an electric guitar, a string vibrates at a specific frequency, just as on an acoustic guitar. The difference is that in the electric, this vibration is directly converted to an electrical signal at the same frequency, which is then converted into sound at the amp.

    In an electric piano, there is no string or anything else that vibrates at the proper frequency. Instead, you simply press a key, and a computer interprets that input, then decides what note to play.

    So maybe it's that electrics have moving parts (besides buttons and switches and such), and electronics are essentially computers? I'm not sure exactly.

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