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2. Nashville tuning (high strung) - Wikipedia

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   Nashville or high-strung tuning refers to the practice of replacing the wound E, A, D and G strings on a six-string guitar with lighter gauge strings to allow tuning an octave higher than standard. [1] This is usually achieved by using one string from each of the six courses of a twelve-string set, using the higher string for those courses ...

3. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   Standard tuning (listen) Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings are described by the particular pitches that are made by notes in Western music. By convention, the notes are ordered and arranged from the lowest-pitched string (i.e ...

4. New standard tuning - Wikipedia

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   Guitar tunings. New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning. The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth { (C,G), (G,D), (D,A), (A,E)}; the two highest strings are a ...

5. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   The predecessor of today's six-string classical guitar was the five-string baroque guitar tuned as the five high strings of a six-string guitar with the A raised one octave. High C – E-A-d-g-c' Standard tuning with the B tuned a half step higher to C to emulate a six-string bass guitar, minus the low B. This is an all fourths tuning.

6. String (music) - Wikipedia

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   String (music) Flatwound strings on a fretless bass guitar. In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they can vibrate freely, but with control. This is to make the string vibrate at the desired pitch, with looser strings producing lower ...

7. Steel-string acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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   The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, [1] but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Like the modern classical guitar, it is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar, or sometimes as a folk guitar. The most common type is often called a flat top ...