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  2. Open D tuning - Wikipedia

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    Open D tuning. Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.The open string notes in this tuning are (from lowest to highest): D A D F ♯ A D.It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D (the root note), F ♯ (the major third) and A (the perfect fifth).

  3. Cross tuning - Wikipedia

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    While the standard tuning for open strings of the violin is GDAE—with the G being the tuning of the lowest-pitched string and the E being the tuning for the highest-pitched string—fiddlers playing tunes in the key of D major sometimes employ a tuning of ADAE. In this tuning the open G string is raised to the A directly above it. Even more ...

  4. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Cajun: F 3 C 4 G 4 D 5; Open G: G 3 D 4 G 4 B 4; Sawmill: G 3 D 4 G 4 D 5; Gee-dad: G 3 D 4 A 4 D 5; Open D: D 3 D 4 A 4 D 5; High bass: A 3 D 4 A 4 E 5; Cross tuning: A 3 E 4 A 4 E 5; Calico: A 3 E 4 A 4 C ♯ 5; Violin, Kit, Pochette Europe, USA "Fiddle" describes a playing style more than a unique instrument; a fiddle is just a violin with a ...

  5. Octave mandolin - Wikipedia

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    Usually, courses of 2 adjacent strings are doubled (tuned to the same pitch). The standard octave mandolin tuning is G 2 G 2 −D 3 D 3 −A 3 A 3 −E 4 E 4, The standard tuning of both the octave and standard mandolin would be GG,DD,AA,EE from lowest to highest string. fourth (lowest tone) course: G 2 (97.9989 Hz) third course: D 3 (146.832 Hz)

  6. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The open D tuning (D–A–D–F ♯ –A–D), also called "Vestapol" tuning, [29] is a common open tuning used by European and American/Western guitarists working with alternative tunings. The Allman Brothers Band instrumental " Little Martha " used an open D tuning raised one half step, giving an open E♭ tuning with the same intervallic ...

  7. Mandolin playing traditions worldwide - Wikipedia

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    Important performers in the Italian tradition include Raffaele Calace (luthier, virtuoso and composer of 180 works for many instruments including mandolin), Carlo Curti (who helped to popularize mandolin in the United States and Mexico), Pietro Denis (who also composed Sonata for mandolin & continuo No. 1 in D major and Sonata No. 3), Giovanni ...

  8. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Nicknamed - "Papa-Papa". DADDAD is common in folk music (Irish, Scottish), and for the execution of a rhythm guitar in "heavy" (alternative music) on 6th on the third string at the same time. To reach the tuning from DADGAD, Open D or Open D Minor, the G string is dropped to D so that the 3rd and 4th strings are tuned to the same pitch.

  9. Standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    Banjo (Five-stringed): G 4 D 3 G 3 B 3 D 4 for bluegrass; old time and folk banjoists use this and a wide variety of other tunings; Mandola: C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4 (same as standard viola tuning) Mandolin: G 3 D 4 A 4 E 5 (same as standard violin tuning) Pipa: A 2 D 3 E 3 A 3 (most common and used in Chinese orchestra; several other tunings exist)