Air Instrument

Air Instrument

In the context of musical performance, air instruments are imaginary musical instruments for which people mimic the sound-producing gestures in the air without touching any real instruments. Air instruments include:

• air guitar - for electric guitar or acoustic guitar;
• air bass - for bass guitar;
• air drums - for snare drums, bongos or bass drum, or most commonly air drum set often with double bass pedals ;
• air keyboards - such as air piano for piano;
• air violin - for violin or cello;
• air flute - for flute (or piccolo);
• air xylophone - for the xylophone;
• air trumpet - for trumpet (as opposed to car/boat air trumpet horns);
• air trombone - for trombone.

There are other air instruments as well.