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  2. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    The scale length of a string instrument is the maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound, and determines the range of tones that string can produce at a given tension. It is also called string length. On instruments in which strings are not "stopped" (typically by frets or the player's fingers) or divided in length (such as in ...

  3. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by hitting the ...

  4. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Apache fiddle (Apache) Apkhyarta (Abkhazia) Arpeggione. Banhu (China) Baryton. Bazantar (United States) Bowed dulcimer. Bowed guitar. Bowed psaltery (United States)

  5. Mandolin - Wikipedia

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    It is typically a five course (ten-string) instrument having a scale length between 20 and 22 inches (510 and 560 mm). The instrument is most often tuned to either D 2 –G 2 –D 3 –A 3 –D 4 or G 2 –D 3 –A 3 –D 4 –A 4, and is essentially an octave mandola with a fifth course at either the top or the bottom of its range. Some ...

  6. Viola - Wikipedia

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    The viola (/ viˈoʊlə / vee-OH-lə, [1] Italian: [ˈvjɔːla, viˈɔːla]) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the violin family, between the violin (which is ...

  7. Tenor guitar - Wikipedia

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    Tenor guitars are four-stringed instruments normally made in the shape of a guitar, or sometimes with a lute -like pear shaped body or, more rarely, with a round banjo-like wooden body. They can be acoustic, electric or both and they can come in the form of flat top or archtop wood-bodied, metal-bodied resonator, or solid-bodied instruments.

  8. Violin family - Wikipedia

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    The standard modern violin family consists of the violin, viola, cello, and (possibly) double bass. [3][4][5] Instrument names in the violin family are all derived from the root viola, which is a derivative of the Medieval Latin word vitula (meaning "stringed instrument"). [6] A violin is a "little viola", a violone is a "big viola" or a bass ...

  9. Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    An orchestra (/ ˈɔːrkɪstrə /; OR-ki-strə) [1] is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass. Woodwinds, such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon ...

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