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  2. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Essentially a 4-string bass with one added high or low string. Choice of tuning depends whether the added string is low or high. Guitar, bass (6-string) 6 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: B 0 E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 C 3. Alternate: E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 B 2 E 3. Bass, electric bass, 6-string bass, contrabass guitar Essentially a 4-string bass with either ...

  3. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tuning pins are used on instruments where there is no space for a knob on each string, such as pianos and harps. Turning the peg or pin tightens or loosens the string. Some tuning pegs and pins are tapered, some threaded. Some tuning pegs are ornamented with shell, metal, or plastic inlays, beads (pips) or rings.

  4. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    Tuning is the process of adjusting the pitch of one or many tones from musical instruments to establish typical intervals between these tones. Tuning is usually based on a fixed reference, such as A = 440 Hz. The term "out of tune" refers to a pitch/tone that is either too high or too low in relation to a given reference pitch. While an ...

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    For example, the octave string of the sixth course of a twelve-string guitar is most commonly string twelve, but in the case of the Rickenbacker 360/12 it is string eleven, because of the unusual standard tuning of this particular (and very important) guitar model. An article that referred particularly to the octave string of this pair and ...

  6. Johnson String Instrument - Wikipedia

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    Johnson String Instrument is a full service provider of new and previously owned stringed instruments and accessories, including their rental, sales, restoration, repair and appraisal. Located in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, the company was founded in 1976 by Carol and Roger Johnson, and is currently owned by their son, Adam Johnson.

  7. Cross tuning - Wikipedia

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    Cross tuning or cross-tuning (aka scordatura) is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument. The term refers to the practice of retuning the strings; it also refers to the various tunings commonly used, or in some contexts it may refer to the AEAE fiddle tuning.

  8. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

  9. Scordatura - Wikipedia

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    Scordatura ([skordaˈtuːra]; literally, Italian for "discord", or "mistuning") is a tuning of a string instrument that is different from the normal, standard tuning. [1] It typically attempts to allow special effects or unusual chords or timbre , or to make certain passages easier to play. [ 2 ]