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  2. Samick - Wikipedia

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    Samick Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼익악기 KRX: 002450, also known as Samick) is a South Korean musical instrument manufacturer. Founded in 1958 as Samick Pianos, it is now one of the world's largest musical instrument manufacturers and an owner of shares in several musical instrument manufacturing companies.

  3. Fistmele - Wikipedia

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    Fistmele, also known as the "brace height", is a term used in archery to describe the distance between a bow and its string. [1] The term itself is a Saxon word (suffix -mele referring to the old form of the archaic sense of meal as "measure") indicating the measure of a clenched hand with the thumb extended.

  4. Meantone temperament - Wikipedia

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    In these terms, some historically notable meantone tunings are listed below, and compared with the closest equitempered microtonal tuning. The first column gives the fraction of the systonic comma by which the perfect fifths are tempered in the meantone system. The second lists 5-limit rational intervals that occur within this tuning. The third ...

  5. Valley Arts Guitars - Wikipedia

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    In an attempt to expand their business, in 1992 they sold half of Valley Arts to the Korean guitar manufacturer Samick. One year after, Samick bought the whole company. [1] McGuire and Carness became dissatisfied with their positions in the company and the quality of the guitars manufactured by Samick, and by 1993 they had moved to positions at ...

  6. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    This is the most common tuning system used in Western music, and is the standard system used as a basis for tuning a piano. Since this scale divides an octave into twelve equal-ratio steps and an octave has a frequency ratio of two, the frequency ratio between adjacent notes is then the twelfth root of two, 2 1/12 ≋ 1.05946309... .

  7. Just intonation - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the notion of limit is a helpful distinction, but certainly does not tell us everything there is to know about a particular scale. Pythagorean tuning, or 3 limit tuning, allows ratios including the numbers 2 and 3 and their powers, such as 3:2, a perfect fifth, and 9:4, a major ninth.

  8. Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Diatonic scale on C, equal tempered Play ⓘ and Ptolemy's intense or just Play ⓘ.. Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale, also known as the Ptolemaic sequence, [1] justly tuned major scale, [2] [3] [4] Ptolemy's tense diatonic scale, or the syntonous (or syntonic) diatonic scale, is a tuning for the diatonic scale proposed by Ptolemy, [5] and corresponding with modern 5-limit just intonation. [6]

  9. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    The steel-string acoustic guitar typically has a scale slightly shorter than the classical instrument, the most common scales ranging between short scale (24 inches (610 mm)) and long scale (25.5 inches (650 mm)). Small travel guitars and guitars specifically designed for children can have even shorter scales.