An indeed emerging trend in the music industry is the way technology has improved it so drastically. In the past, for instance, vinyl records were viral and are the premium medium for music distribution because it has far more superior audio quality than its predecessor, the audio tape cassette. After a couple of years, the music industry saw its first compact disc or CD. It was a giant leap for music technology. The CD featured digitally encoded signals, far more accurate and better than the analogue vinyl. This ultimately resulted in more capabilities and diversity in music. We can see that technology has improved the music industry in three areas: instrumental, auditory and distribution advancements.
             The three main aspects where technology has made significant improvements are instruments, audio techniques and methodologies and music distribution and copyright.
             Examples of the way technology has affected the different aspects are countless. Some examples are illustrated here. Musical instruments, firstly, has been greatly influenced by technology. The early English organ, that used manual valves to control sound production is now replaced with electronic circuitry. This circuit is preprogrammed to 'tell' the valves to release enough air to produce a certain tone. Early organs depend on how much pressure the organist applies to the keys and after much playing of the organ, the slight inaccuracies of the instrument will result in misaligned tonal sounds. Thus, the circuitry completely eliminates the need to tune the instrument regularly and ensures accurate reproduction of sound all the time. The Germany-manufactured pipe organ that sits in Singapore's Esplanade arts centre, is an application of electronic technology in organs. The wind instrument is the largest and most advanced in South-East Asia (Rachel, 2004, p. 29). Computer chips that have been integrated into the pipe organ provides a wider range of tonal sounds.
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