acoustic
adjective
pertaining to the sense or organs of hearing, to sound, or to the science of sound.
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He notes that when you try to capture a nonacoustic sound with acoustic instruments, it can lead to some creative orchestration that might not emerge if your starting point were, say, a piano trio.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2012