Owner`s manual

• Lip Reed
In a trumpet, the player's lips are pressed against a specially-shaped mouthpiece and forced
to vibrate in response to the player's breath pressure. The trombone, horn, tuba, and most other
brass instruments work on this principle.
• Jet Reed
The flute, pan pipes and shakuhachi all work on the "jet reed" principle: i.e. sound is generated
by the air turbulence produced by blowing across a solid edge.
• Bow
A bow drawn across a string causes the string to vibrate, thereby generating sound: violin,
cello, contrabass, etc.
• Pluck
Guitar, mandolin, and harp are all plucked string instruments. "Pizzicato" is plucked violin,
viola, etc. This driver corresponds to plucking a string to produce sound.
* When the "Pluck" driver is selected polyphonic performance becomes possible — except on
the VL7 which uses a single element.
(b) The PIPE/STRINGS Options
The pipe or string is the section of the instrument that amplifies and adds distinctive tonal
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