A microphone assembly includes a microphone unit and an attachment unit. The attachment unit includes a camera shoe attachment section to be attached to a camera shoe and a damper housing cylinder fixed to the camera shoe attachment section. A holder is fixed to a lower end of an inner cylinder of a protruding section protruding from the microphone unit. The lower end of the inner cylinder is pivotally supported by a second damper contained in the damper housing cylinder through the holder. The middle portion of the protruding section is supported by a first damper contained in the damper housing cylinder.