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  2. Eight-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    An eight-string guitar is a guitar with eight strings, or one more than the Russian guitar's seven. Eight-string guitars are less common than six- and seven-string guitars, but they are used by a few classical, jazz, and metal guitarists. The eight-string guitar allows a wider tonal range, or non-standard tunings (such as major-thirds tuning ...

  3. Mandolin - Wikipedia

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    It is a flatback instrument, with a wide neck and 4 courses (8 strings), 5 courses (10 strings) or 6 courses (12 strings), and is used in Algeria and Morocco. The instrument can be tuned as a guitar, oud , or mandocello, depending on the music it will be used to play and player preference.

  4. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards

  5. Bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    This bouzouki has 10 strings arranged in 5 pairs, adding on an Octave G Course tuned G 2 G 3 in addition to the other 8 strings to extend the range so the tuning is G 2 G 3-C 3 C 4 –F 3 F 4 –A 3 A 3 –D 4 D 4 (a whole step below the 5 high strings of a guitar) which allows for extended Chords & versatility, & was popularized by ...

  6. List of extended-range guitar players - Wikipedia

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    He has used extended range instruments almost exclusively since. He is noted for often incorporating elements of metal and shred while also having clean passages in his songs, making much use of his 8-string guitar's range to cover both the bass and guitar tracks for his compositions simultaneously on one guitar. He attended the Atlanta ...

  7. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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    The banjolin is different from the banjo-mandolin in the number of strings that it has. Banjolins today are supposed to have four strings instead of 8 strings (in courses or pairs). However, that distinction is not universal; John Farris patented an instrument with 8 strings calling it a banjolin by name in 1885. [5]

  8. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    The piano and harp represent the first method, where each note on the instrument has its own string or course of multiple strings tuned to the same note. (Many notes on a piano are strung with a "choir" of three strings tuned alike, to increase the volume.)

  9. Hardanger fiddle - Wikipedia

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    A Hardanger fiddle (Norwegian: hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered to be the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs, this type of fiddle is very similar to the violin, though with eight or nine strings (rather than four as on a standard violin) and thinner wood.

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