1. A piezo sensor attached to the body of an instrument is known as a contact microphone . 2. His Daxophone consists of a single wooden blade fixed in a block containing a contact microphone . 3. "Clip-on " tuners typically attach to instruments with a spring-loaded clip that has a built-in contact microphone . 4. The result is a hands-free, head-contact microphone that masks wind and background noise in addition to being waterproof. 5. Contact microphones have been used to pick up the sound of a snail's heartbeat and the footsteps of ants.6. Contact microphones were attached to each " instrument " for amplification and the feeds were mixed live during their performances.7. Berio prescribes a contact microphone solution in his score, whereby the microphones are secured to the underside of the sound board. 8. It comes in a pastic box with a built-in handmade instrument consisting of a metal plate, springs, and a contact microphone . 9. A contact microphone picks up vibrations directly from a solid surface or object, as opposed to sound vibrations carried through air. 10. These vibrations then continue to the wooden-block bass, which in turn is amplified by the contact microphone ( s ) therein.
