Editing Lip sync (section)

==Finger syncing==
The [[Miming in instrumental performance|miming of the playing of a musical instrument]], also called ''finger-syncing'', is the instrument equivalent of lip syncing.<ref name="vh1.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.vh1.com/news/7dfay7/10-biggest-lip-syncing-scandals|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529024423/https://www.vh1.com/news/7dfay7/10-biggest-lip-syncing-scandals|url-status=live|archive-date=May 29, 2022|title=Watch Your Mouth! The 10 Biggest Lip Syncing Scandals In Music History|access-date=25 March 2018}}</ref> A notable example of miming includes [[John Williams]]' piece at President [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|Obama's inauguration]], which was a recording made two days earlier and mimed by musicians [[Yo-Yo Ma]] and [[Itzhak Perlman]]. The musicians wore earpieces to hear the playback.<ref name=precisely>{{cite news |first= Daniel J.|last= Wakin|title=The Frigid Fingers Were Live, but the Music Wasn't  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/music/23band.html?_r=1&hp |quote= The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama's oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet and matched tone for tone by the musicians playing along. ... Famous practitioners since the Milli Vanilli affair include Ashlee Simpson, caught doing it on ''Saturday Night Live,'' and Luciano Pavarotti, discovered lip-synching during a concert in Modena, Italy. More recently, Chinese organizers superimposed the voice of a sweeter-singing little girl on that of a 9-year-old performer featured at the opening ceremony of last summer's Olympic Games. Movement to lips when the singer's singing |work=[[New York Times]] |date=January 22, 2009  |access-date=2009-01-23 }}</ref> During Whitney Houston's performance of "The Star Spangled Banner" with full orchestra, a pre-recorded version was used: "At the game, everyone was playing, and Whitney was singing, but there were no live microphones," orchestra director Kathryn Holm McManus revealed in 2001. "Everyone was lip synching or finger-synching."<ref name="vh1.com"/>