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  2. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tuning pegs with knobs on a veena.. Tapered pegs are a simple, ancient design, common in many musical traditions. Tapered pegs are common on classical Indian instruments such as the sitar, the Saraswati veena, and the sarod, but some like the esraj and Mohan veena often use modern tuning machines instead.

  3. Faruk Türünz - Wikipedia

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    Faruk Türünz (born 28 June 1944 in Adana, Turkey) is a Turkish luthier who specializes in ouds and is considered one of the best oud makers. [1] His shop is in Istanbul , Turkey . Having worked as a primary school teacher for 10 years, Türünz started constructing ouds in 1984, after studying with Cafer Açın, head of the Musical ...

  4. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    The common Zheng Diao tuning sets "do" to approx. "F 3" and tunes other strings relative to that to give C 3 D 3 F 3 G 3 A 3 C 4 D 4. Gusli: 9 strings 9 courses. Standard/common: E 3 A 3 B 3 C 4 D 4 E 4 F 4 G 4 A 4. Крыловидные гусли Russia Tuning varies; this is a common traditional tuning

  5. Arabic maqam - Wikipedia

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    Maqam scales in traditional Arabic music are microtonal, not based on a twelve-tone equal-tempered musical tuning system, as is the case in modern Western music. Most maqam scales include a perfect fifth or a perfect fourth (or both), and all octaves are perfect. The remaining notes in a maqam scale may or may not exactly land on semitones.

  6. Oud - Wikipedia

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    The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced) [1] [2] [3] is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.

  7. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.321

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    oud [16] Arab: 321.321-6 Pear-shaped fretless stringed instrument, with five courses of two strings and a single eleventh string, a bent back and a bowl-shaped body, often with up to three soundholes, played with a pick pandur: Chechnya: 321.321 pandura: 321.321 panduri: Georgia: 321.321 pipa [17] China: 321.321-5

  8. Tuned bottles - Wikipedia

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    musical glasses, glass harp Tuned Bottles are musical instruments crafted from everyday bottles ( found objects ) which are filled with water to create different pitches. The length of the air column above the water determines the resonant frequency, and thus the pitch achieved.

  9. Munir Bashir - Wikipedia

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    Building on older traditions of the Iraqi oud school, including that of his elder brother, Munir Bashir developed a signature tuning that bears his name: A notable feature of this tuning is the duplication of the highest course in F with an additional course tuned an octave lower. This innovation creates a rich, full sound in the high melody ...