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  2. Zero fret - Wikipedia

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    Zero fret on a Hopf Saturn 63 electric guitar. A zero fret is a fret placed at the headstock end of the neck of a banjo, guitar, mandolin, or bass guitar.It serves one of the functions of a nut: holding the strings the correct distance above the other frets on the instrument's fretboard.

  3. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    Tenor banjo (19 fret) ... The scale length of a piano is the length of the longest string. As this is normally the lowest bass note, it is a single string.

  4. Qinqin - Wikipedia

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    The fret spacing used on the qinqin is not the same as on Western instruments such as the guitar or banjo, so the notes do not correspond to the 12TET (12-tone equal temperament) system. Unlike the pipa (and some other Chinese instruments), the fretboards of most models of qinqins have not been modernized to support the 12TET standard.

  5. Chord diagram (music) - Wikipedia

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    Chord diagrams for some common chords in major-thirds tuning. In music, a chord diagram (also called a fretboard diagram or fingering diagram) is a diagram indicating the fingering of a chord on fretted string instruments, showing a schematic view of the fretboard with markings for the frets that should be pressed when playing the chord. [1]

  6. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    The Cello banjo is sometimes called "bass banjo", but it is tuned differently, and there are true bass banjos as well. Banjo, cello: 4 strings 4 courses. C 2 G 2 D 3 A 3 "bass" banjo US Same as used for the cello. Banjo, cello: 5 strings 5 courses. G 3 D 2 G 2 B 2 D 3: banjo cello US One octave lower than 5-string bluegrass banjo. Banjo ...

  7. Banjo - Wikipedia

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    He played the tenor banjo, violin, mandolin, and melodeon. He was most renowned as a banjo player. Barney used GDAE tuning on a 19-fret tenor banjo, an octave below fiddle/mandolin and, according to musician Mick Moloney, was single-handedly responsible for making the GDAE-tuned tenor banjo the standard banjo in Irish music.

  8. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Banjo (United States) Banjo cello; Banjolin; Banjulele; Bass banjo; Bluegrass banjo (5-string banjo) Contrabass banjo; Electric banjo; Fretless banjo; Guitanjo; Long neck banjo; Plectrum banjo; Tenor banjo; Barbat (Iran) Basolia (Ukraine and Poland) Bass guitar. Electric bass guitar; Acoustic bass guitar; Begena (Ethiopia) Biwa (Japanese ...

  9. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    A wide variety of techniques are used to sound notes on the electric guitar, including plucking with the fingernails or a plectrum, strumming and even "tapping" on the fingerboard and using feedback from a loud, distorted guitar amplifier to produce a sustained sound. Some string instruments are mainly plucked, such as the harp and the electric ...