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A more recently developed tuning is commonly found on tremolos manufactured in or designed for Asia. This layout is derived from the "solo" tuning found in chromatic harmonicas and is sometimes called "scale" tuning. Here the notes of the major scale are found throughout the range of the harmonica without a separate chord section in the bass ...
List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual ; 15 equal temperament
In all major scales with flat key signatures, the tonic in a major key is a perfect fourth below the last flat. When there is more than one flat, the tonic is the note of the second-to-last flat in the signature. [11] In the major key with four flats (B ♭ E ♭ A ♭ D ♭), for example, the second to last flat is A ♭, indicating a key of A ...
F major is the home key of the English horn, the basset horn, the horn in F, the trumpet in F and the bass Wagner tuba. Thus, music in F major for these transposing instruments is written in C major. These instruments sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher.
In just intonation, the frequencies of the scale notes are related to one another by simple numeric ratios, a common example of this being 1 / 1 , 9 / 8 , 5 / 4 , 4 / 3 , 3 / 2 , 5 / 3 , 15 / 8 , 2 / 1 to define the ratios for the seven notes in a C major scale, plus the return to the ...
The Guqin Scale of harmonics on the Moodswinger Scale of harmonics on C. Play ⓘ The scale of harmonics is a musical scale based on the noded positions of the natural harmonics existing on a string. [citation needed] This musical scale is present on the guqin, regarded as one of the first string instruments with a musical scale. [1]
Instruments that do not play in the key of C are known as transposing instruments. [5] The most common kind of clarinet, for example, is said to play in the key of B ♭. This means that a scale written in C major in sheet music actually sounds as a B ♭ major scale when played on the B-flat clarinet—that is, notes sound a whole tone lower ...
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