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  2. Ten-string classical guitar of Yepes - Wikipedia

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    In Ser Instrumento, [5] Yepes mentions that the reasons that led him to carry out the "design" (diseño), [6] of his instrument were acoustical/physical ("físicas") and musical ("musicales"). [6] After some "initial protest" [ 3 ] that the 10-string guitar envisioned by Yepes was "impossible" [ 7 ] to construct, Ramírez agreed to the ...

  3. Musical note - Wikipedia

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    For use with the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard, a frequency mapping is defined by: = + ⁡, where is the MIDI note number. 69 is the number of semitones between C −1 (MIDI note 0) and A 4.

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  5. Bajo quinto - Wikipedia

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    The Bajo quinto (Spanish: "fifth bass") is a Mexican string instrument from the guitar family with 10 strings in five double courses. [1]It is played in a similar manner to the guitar, with the left hand changing the pitch with the frets on a fingerboard while the right hand plucks or strums the strings with or without a pick. [1]

  6. Jarana jarocha - Wikipedia

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    The jarana is used to great effect with other instruments such as the 'arpa jarocha' or Veracruz folk harp, the 'guitarra de son' which is almost identical to the jarana but for the fact that it has four strings that are plucked with a long plectrum usually made of cowhorn (thus making it a melodic rather than rhythm instrument) and because it ...

  7. Puerto Rican cuatro - Wikipedia

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    El Cuatro Puertorriqueño (1938): Guitar player above the swamp water. The workers' quarter of Puerto de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Very little is known about the exact origin of the cuatro. However, most experts believe that the cuatro has existed on the island in one form or another for about 400 years.

  8. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Jeongganbo musical notation system. Jeongganbo is a traditional musical notation system created during the time of Sejong the Great that was the first East Asian system to represent rhythm, pitch, and time. [20] [21] Among various kinds of Korean traditional music, Jeong-gan-bo targets a particular genre, Jeong-ak (정악, 正樂).

  9. Chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    A guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. In Western music theory, a chord is a group [a] of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance.The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it consists of three distinct notes: the root note along with intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. [1]