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Although the Irish bouzouki's bass course pairs are most often tuned in unison, on some instruments one of each pair is replaced with a lighter string and tuned in octaves, similar to the 12-string guitar. While occupying the same range as the octave mandolin/octave mandola, the Irish bouzouki is theoretically distinguished from the former ...
Twelve-string guitar, 12 string 12 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: E 3 E 2 •A 3 A 2 •D 4 D 3 •G 4 G 3 •B 3 B 3 •E 4 E 4. Alternates: Variant: E 4 E 2 •A 3 A 2 •D 4 D 3 •G 4 G 3 •B 3 B 3 •E 4 E 4; All 6-string alternates may be adapted to 12-string. Twelve-stringed Guitar US? Some players tune the third course to unison G ...
A tricordia (also trichordia or tricordio) or mandriola is a twelve-stringed variation of the mandolin. [1] The tricordia is used in Mexican folk music, while its European cousin, the mandriola, is used identically to the mandolin. It differs from a standard mandolin in that it has three strings per course.
When playing in unison, this tuning also allow a chorus-like effect similar to the sound that the unison produces in 12 string guitars, but in a much smaller scale. It was developed to be used with a standard set of strings, for example a hybrid set of 0.9 strings, and without lowering too much the range of the electric guitar.
Other plucked string instruments and their respective standard tunings include: 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)
The string length is variable, like all of the lute family, but generally in the range of 32 to 36 cm. Tuning patterns are unique, the intervals between courses being alternating fourths and fifths, for example d-g-d'-g'-d", as Pretorius Syntagma Musicum mandore's tuning (1619).
The octave mandolin (US and Canada) or octave mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted string instrument with four pairs of strings tuned in fifths, G−D−A−E (low to high). It is larger than the mandola , but smaller than the mandocello and its construction is similar to other instruments in the mandolin family.
It can be tricky. For example, the octave string of the sixth course of a twelve-string guitar is most commonly string twelve, but in the case of the Rickenbacker 360/12 it is string eleven, because of the unusual standard tuning of this particular (and very important) guitar model. An article that referred particularly to the octave string of ...